Written by Concerned mothers Wednesday, 07 Nov 2012 07:13
Commentary
Open letter to the Prime Minister upon Lynas by the group of endangered mothers
YAB Dato' Seri Mohd. Najib Bin Tun Abdul Razak,
We, representatives of mothers from Kuantan hereby benefaction to you, Honourable Prime Minister Najib Razak as well as as the constant son of Pahang, the concerns with regard to the Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) circuitously Kuantan.
We seductiveness to you as the venerable Prime Minister of Malaysia to show caring in tolerable growth by stopping the Lynas singular earth refinery plan in the seductiveness of open illness as well as for the long-term destiny of your homeland in Pahang. If the LAMP is authorised to work as well as once Lynas starts bringing the singular earth ore to Malaysia! , you wi ll perpetually have to live in the shade of deviation exposure as well as pollution. This risk as well as hazards have been genuine as well as have been proven by eccentric scientific research as well as engineering assessment that you have access to.
Our regulator the Atomic Energy chartering Board (AELB) as well as the Minister obliged for the AELB, Datuk Seri Panglima Dr Maximus Johnity Ongkili, the Minister of Science, Technology as well as Innovation (Mosti) contingency be hold accountable as well as obliged for their purpose in facilitating this dangerous world-scale singular earth refinery circuitously Kuantan.
Both the AELB as well as the Datuk Seri Maximus Ongkili have broken open trust as well as certainty by the issuing of the temporary handling looseness to Lynas Corporation despite widespread open opposition to the dangerous plan as well as most superb problems connected with the Lynas refinery plan as follows:
- When the government authorized of the TOL for Lynas in January, no protected or viable permanent resolution was found for the radioactive waste. Today, the AELB has released the TOL to Lynas when the association is still scrambling around trying to find the permanent resolution to the poisonous radioactive waste. This is the risk-taking behaviour dangerous to Malaysia as well as the rakyat's long-term well-being. No advanced republic would have authorised this to happen.
- The IAEA, AELB, Mosti as well as the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) have all failed the rakyat as well as went opposite your long-held sign that "rakyat didahulukan" by asserting that Lynas should bring in the ore concentrate into Malaysia for testing. This is radically creation your rakyat, generally the children, Lynas' lab rats for the own blurb interests all free-of-charge. Can you as the Prime Minister of the republic concede this to happen underneath your nose? This is the dangerous as well as unsure preference that will adversely affect the whole nation, gen! erally y our home state of Pahang.
- What about the kampung folks vital circuitously the LAMP, the fishermen, the women, generally those who await their family selling keropok, ikan masin, otak-otak, satar as well as other traditional seafood products. What will happen to the young kids who live nearby, who fool around in the Balok River where Lynas will be dumping 500 tonnes of the discharged H2O EVERY HOUR? The H2O discharged is contaminated as well as nonetheless nothing of the stream as well as estuarine users or the fishermen have been properly sensitive or educated about the risk as well as hazards to their life.
- The Pahang beaches so famous as well as popular in Malaysia will be sinister by the presence of the world-scale singular earth plant. Lynas is the reputational risk for Malaysia. Do you severely think well-heeled tourist will wish to spend money circuitously the world's largest singular earth refinery? Do you really think that Club Med usually some 15km north will keep handling when Lynas starts the operations?
- Lynas has no experience in the estimate of singular earth or in handling the complex rubbish as well as wickedness problems. There has as nonetheless been no most appropriate use indication of singular earth refinery in the universe to date. China is usually beginning to purify up decades of disastrous-scale wickedness from the singular earth industry that rendered most places hotbeds of cancer as well as chronic illnesses. The Californian desert-based Mt Pass singular earth miner Molycorp is still piloting the US$ 500 million retro fitted zero-discharge estimate plant. Yet in Malaysia, the all inexperienced new player in the singular earth estimate industry dared to claim that the plant is safe, as well as in the peat mangrove engulf so close to an important mangrove area as well as the South China Sea!
- The AELB has failed prior to in ensuring that no damaging deviation as well as wickedness is left to harm the rakya! t in Buk it Merah as well as circuitously villages. It was internal residents who, like us, had to take the matter to the court. It was by general vigour that Mitsubishi in the future shut down the poisonous Asian Rare Earth Plant. Neither Mosti nor the AELB did the thing to make certain that tax-paying rakyat as well as their family have been safe.
- Worse, the AELB has nonetheless to thoroughly purify up the disaster left by Mitsubishi's Asian Rare Earth plant there have been still illegal bail out sites scattered around the plant with rarely radioactive poisonous rubbish left from where as well as when it was dumped over twenty years ago. This systemic as well as one after another failure do not give us the rakyat any certainty in the AELB in handling the Lynas plan that is during least 10 times bigger with hundreds more times rubbish to be produced.
- Until today, not the singular plant or his or her family in Bukit Merah area has been compensated for their illness as well as illness conditions. The people themselves have to collect up the pieces of the bad government preference with no await or special illness services provided to them. There was not any illness investigate or environmental impact investigate finished to assess as well as establish the extent of the impact upon the sourroundings as well as the internal community. This kind of negligence usually happens to the third universe country!
- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has done 11 recommendations final June, the AELB set five conditions in the chartering approval behind in late Jan as well as dual conditions were added by Minister Ongkili from the review. Further the PSC done 31 recommendations as well as nonetheless rakyat have not been sensitive upon how the Government has been progressing upon these recommendations. This in itself has contravened one of the key recommendations of the IAEA that the AELB to inform the open upon the preference creation process, that the Governme! nt has p ublicly declared it will adhered to.
- The TOL was simply released by the AELB. At first you suspicion the import looseness as well as the looseness to draw up excess have nonetheless to be released as indicated by the AELB. Suddenly as well as unexpectedly, these licences too were released again but the AELB following the own routine having earlier publicly settled that Lynas had nonetheless to request for those dual licences.
- Rare earth elements generally lanthanide have been not submissive you have been attaching the list of references outlining the assorted illness impacts as well as hazards for your reference.
- Malaysia will be the laughing batch of advanced nations as well as countries that pride themselves for their great governance. The government has done the fool of itself in the eyes of obliged governments the universe over by issuing the TOL during the responsibility of tax paying rakyat as well as the changed sourroundings for the unfamiliar company. Malaysia will be sinister with the reputation for fast-tracking dangerous as well as unsure plan during the responsibility of the environment, the race as well as even the internal economy that has sustained the livelihoods of hundreds as well as thousands of people for decades.
- Malaysia will earn the poor reputation for hosting such the world-scale dangerous plan as well as allowing the unfamiliar association to bail out millions of tonnes of poisonous radioactive rubbish (imported from Australia) onto the beautiful shore tax free. Only the third universe republic will do that!
- As mothers, you have been intensely endangered with the impact of such the poor as well as ill-considered preference upon the family as well as the most generations to come.
As mothers, you wish the most appropriate for the family generally for the young kids as well as the beloved republic Malaysia. We wish growth as well as you wish growth that does not cause harm to the vi! tal sour roundings as well as the future.
- As mothers, you wish to see the young kids as well as their young kids as well as the most generations later to enjoy the same if not improved vital sourroundings as you have now. With millions of tonnes of poisonous rubbish in the backyard that will go on to be the jeopardy for ever thorium has the half-life of 14 billion years you will perpetually be vital in the shade of this pollution.
We seductiveness to you, Honourable Prime Minister, the constant son of Pahang as well as as the father, to exercise your avocation of caring as well as to show strong caring to meddle in the interests of the rakyat as well as for the country's long-term tolerable growth prior to it is too late.
We thank you for your courtesy as well as you look brazen to your caring in facilitating the peaceful as well as acceptable resolution to this problem that has plagued the republic given you have learnt of the life from the media final year. We have been right away withdrawal it in your hands.
As mothers, you will go on to fight till the end for the cleanser as well as safer Malaysia.
Yours truthfully,
Rahiza Binti Zulkifli representing the following mothers:
Dr Yu Siew Hong, Lee Chow Fong, Abujavali A/P V. Raman, Prabawathi A/P V Raman, Hjh Zaharah Awang, Sam Theem, Idun bt Lah, Siti Zainab bt Sulaaiman, Leong Tze Lai, Jamilah Tarsi, Nyew Siok Jim, Santha a/p Govindasamy
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2 comments:
Absolute bullshit - These people have been fed utter lies consistently - no scientific substantiation for these statements at all... The radiation from a crate of bananas is the same as 1kg of concentrate at the Gebeng plant - And water? You want to read THE TRUTH?
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/UCBAirSampling/RainWaterSampling
"For example, in the rain water we collected in 18 hours between March 17 and March 18 we observe an activity of the isotope of I-131 (Iodine-131) of 4.26 Bq/l."
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http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs291/en/index.html
Radon in drinking water
In many countries, drinking water is obtained from groundwater sources such as springs, wells and boreholes. These sources of water normally have much higher concentrations of radon than surface water from rivers, lakes and streams.
In many countries, radon concentrations of 20 Bq/l – in some instances above 100 Bq/l – have been measured in individual water supplies. To date, epidemiological studies have not found an association between radon in drinking water and cancer of the digestive and other systems. The WHO guidelines for drinking water quality recommend repeated measurements to be implemented if radon in public drinking water supplies exceeds 100 Bq/l.
WHO response
WHO recommends that countries implement national programmes to reduce the population’s risk from exposure to the national average radon concentration, as well as reducing the risk for individuals exposed to high radon levels. Building codes should be implemented to reduce radon levels in homes under construction. A national reference level of 100 Bq/m3 is recommended. However, if this level cannot be reached under the prevailing country-specific conditions, the reference level should not exceed 300 Bq/m3.
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1 bq/l ... it is a lower amount than rain water!
READ THIS:
http://www.academicjournals.org/sre/pdf/pdf2012/9March/Yussuf%20et%20al.pdf
This document shows the makeup of rainwater in Malaysia.
Most of the radioactivity is contributed by potassium-40.
The total is higher than 1 bq/l!
IDIOTS! DESTROYING MALAYSIA'S FUTURE!
KUANTAN, Nov 7 (Bernama) -- The plan by the Lynas Advanced Minerals Plant (LAMP) in Gebeng here to start up the country's first rare earth plant can help Malaysia move to the forefront of the rare earth industry, says a Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) lecturer and an expert in rare earth.
UMP Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and International Affairs) Prof Dr Badhrulhisham Abdul Aziz said Malaysia was well positioned to become a rare earth hub because the country has 0.03 per cent of the world's rare earth reserves and with Lynas providing the rare earth feedstock can attract downstream industries to locate their factories here.
Prof Badhrulhisham is also a member of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia Rare Earth Committee and Chairman of UMP Rare Earth Research Work Committee.
Global demand for rare earth has been on the increase. By 2016, world demand for rare earth elements is expected to reach 160,000 tonnes, up from about 105,000 tonnes last year, according to estimates released earlier this year by Perth-based industry consultant Dudley Kingsnorth of Industrial Minerals Co of Australia (IMCOA).
Through Lynas, Malaysia can meet up to 20 per cent of the global demand. Rare earth is used for many downstream industries ranging from colour TVs,computer screens, handphones to energy-saving bulbs, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines and vehicles.
The global market for rare earth downstream products in the form of colour TVs, mobile phones, monitors and green energy products is estimated to be valued at over US$10 trillion.
Based on a report dated May 12, 2012 by Academy of Sciences Malaysia and National Professors' Council, Malaysia can capitalise on the strong demand for rare earth, said Prof Badhrulhisham.
"Firstly, the country needs to undertake a national exercise to map out potential rare earth deposits and evaluate their economic potentials. This could start a national enterprise for our mining renaissance.
"Malaysia should encourage upstream mining and extraction of rare earth through partnerships between local and global companies which have access to finance, technology and markets," he said.
He said downstream manufacturing industries for rare earth products should be given incentives to substitute imports and expand exports, especially for the manufacturing of components for the automotive sector, information and communications technology, consumer or industrial electronics and in newly established industries like solar power, biotechnology and nanotechnology.
Malaysia also has the opportunity to build up on its human capital skills in rare earth processing and product manufacturing, he said.
Starting with the Lynas facility in Gebeng as a test bed, a world-class research and development (R&;D) centre on rare earths will be developed through collaboration between UMP, foreign universities and R&;D companies.
Prof Badhrulhisham also said plans were afoot to set up a Rare Earth Vocational Training Institute in Kuantan to supply skilled workers to small and at medium enterprises that will spring up to support the rare earth green technology industry.
The Atomic Energy Licensing Board (AELB) and the Independent Malaysian Regulatory Support Organisation (TSO) is a good start as both organisations can monitor the development of the rare earth industry and its safety.
Lynas Advanced Material Plant in Gebeng has been verified by six independent bodies to be safe and did not contravene local and international safety and environment regulations.
These verifications were conducted independently by Malaysia's AELB, United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency, an academic expert panel, an independent committee, Public Works Department experts and the Parliamentary Select Committee.
At RM2.5 billion, LAMP is Australia's largest investment in Malaysia and is expected to create a nucleus for the rare earth industry, just like Petronas created a hub for petrochemical activities in Kertih.
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