By Clara Chooi
Apr 12, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, Apr twelve Kuantan MP Fuziah Salleh pronounced today she was "disturbed" which a High Court had deserted a bid by 10 residents to stop Lynas Corp's singular earth plant out of concern for a minister's feelings. The PKR lawmaker, who has been during a forefront of a residents' anti-Lynas struggle, pointed out which a court, as an eccentric body with no vested interest in a issue, should be creation a decision only based upon facts as well as not be worried about offending a minister.
According to Fuziah, when rejecting a residents' legal examination duplicate today, Justice Rohana Yusof had pronounced which she did not wish to confuse a Science, Technology as well as Innovation apportion should a latter confirm differently from a justice upon Lynas Corp's proxy occupational looseness (TOL).
The group of 10 Kuantan residents had filed a suit upon February 17 severe a Atomic Energy Licensing Board's (AELB) authority in approving a TOL for Lynas Corp's plant in a Gebeng Industrial Estate.
"I am not severe a court's decision, we do not wish to be in contempt of court. But we was uneasy by a judge's statement," Fuziah toldThe Malaysian Insider.
"Since when does a decider have to please a minister? Why should a decider be endangered about how a apportion feels? She should be creation her decision independently.
"It is a unequivocally unhappy day to hear which sort of thing."
When creation her settlement today, Rohana had pronounced a group's bid for legal examination was deserted upon grounds which a parliamentary select cabinet (PSC) as well as apportion Datuk Seri Maximus Ongkili were already looking in to a same issues raised by a residents.
"The Houses of Parliament are posterior a same e! xercise by a PSC... they are a proper channel to look [into] as well as counsel upon complaints as well as grievances," she ruled.
"In a face of a interest routine tentative prior to a minister, a justice cannot undermine which process. The justice would describe which interest superfluous, as well as what is enacted by Parliament as meaningless."
She added which should a commentary of a apportion talk about from a court's, this would outcome in "confusion as well as embarrassment".
Fuziah pronounced she was willing to accept a court's other reasons for rejecting a application, though provided which they were not mere excuses to stop a Kuantan residents from posterior a matter further.
"Maybe a an excuse... a PSC as well as so on. we mean, all a three branches of supervision must be authorised to run their affairs concurrently without interference as well as without conversion one another.
"This is what bothers me a most, even some-more than a decision itself. The decider can give all her veteran reasons though a matter about annoying a minister, which was unequivocally disturbing," she said.
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