FMT - No decision on waste, says minister as crack in Cabinet widens over Lynas (extracts)
KUALA LUMPUR: Putrajaya has yet to make a decision requiring rare earths company Lynas Malaysia to send back its waste to Australia, Entrepreneur Development Minister Redzuan Yusof said, as a debate on the future of the Australian firm reveals a crack among Cabinet members.
Redzuan said while the government was clear that it would allow Lynas to continue operating, the issue of waste was a separate matter which needed to be addressed.
“There is no decision collectively by the government to send the waste back to Australia,” he said.
This is despite Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change Minister Yeo Bee Yin saying the government has formed a task force to facilitate the sending back of Lynas’ waste to Australia.
Why is this fCk-er so obdurate even after Sweetie Yeo Bee Yin has long said that Lynas' waste would be sent back to Australia [though in my personal opinion, Sweetie may find the Australian disowning Lynas and refusing retry to the waste of its Aussie-orginated/exported ore, wakakaka]?
I suspect Kipas Menteri has done so for the same reason he proudly and preemptively proclaimed his ludicrous 'flying KDK-propelled car', to wit, to please his Pribumi Party boss, Mahathir.
Indeed, if we recall, when he first clocked in at his ministry, a porfolio already abolished 10 years ago but recently revived by Mahathir as the PM of Pakatan government, the Kipas Minisuter was reported as saying: "I have yet to find out the true aspirations of the Prime Minister as we are currently in the midst of fine-tuning the blueprint."
Yes, on his very first day at his recently revived ministry, he has the blardy bombastic brazenness to pronounce pompously, that he and his staff were "........ in the midst of fine-tuning the blueprint", wakakaka - what a BS-ter.
But back to my suspicions, namely, that Redzuan, in sucking up to Mahathir, has obdurately and rather rudely dismissed Minister Yeo's earlier official pronouncement on the mandatory expatriation of Lynas waste.
Redzuan arrogantly said that Minister Yeo’s view, that of Lynas shipping out its waste from Malaysia, could be her personal opinion, and added that she should take responsibility for her statement.
Wakakaka, that lil' twerp.
Just then, Sweetie Fuziah Salleh, the very person who has long put her effort, heart and soul into getting rid of Lynas, said: Redzuan Md Yusof tidak perlu menyentuh isu Lynas kerana ia tiada kaitan dengan portfolionya sebagai menteri pembangunan usahawan.
“Saya kira biar menteri dan timbalan (menteri) tenaga, sains, teknologi, alam sekitar dan perubahan iklim yang jawab mengenai sisa buangan radioaktif Lynas.
“Kementerian Perdagangan Antarabangsa dan Industri serta Lembaga Pembangunan Pelaburan Malaysia urus mengenai pelaburan. Tiada benda kaitan dengan menteri pembangunan usahawan.”
In other words, to cut it short, Sweetie Fuziah told Redzuan to STFU as removing radioactive waste from Lynas is in the domain of the Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change Minister, namely, Sweetie Yeo, and has nothing to do with the Entrepreneur Development Ministry.
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& that means you Entrepreneur Development Minister wakakaka |
But what makes that fCk-er believe TaiKoe wants Lynas to stay on?
If we recall, some 30 years ago (1979) when then-PM Mahathir allowed Japan's Mitsubishi Chemicals to open a rare-earths refinery in the Malaysian village of Bukit Merah and papan, whose residents were mainly Chinese Malaysians.
The facility was warmly embraced by Mahathir's old government (and cronies) as an advanced foreign investment that would help create jobs in Perak. But of course the old cunning musang did not have that plant situated in Kubang Pasu despite his public confidence it was safe.
Although the plant is gone today, alas, its toxic legacy persists. Yes, the plant has been abandoned, but the locals saw a rise in leukaemia, birth defects, infant deaths, congenital diseases, miscarriages and lead poisoning in the following years.
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Papan residents strolling past a row of pre-war shop houses that are now mainly abandoned In 1985, the residents of Bukit Merah obtained an injunction to stop ARE from operating until it meets safety standards. But it wasn't until 1992 when ARE closed down the factory operations as a result of increasing public pressure that threatened to launch a global boycott on Mitsubishi products |
And the Pribumi party minister Redzuan has even the stupidity, insensitivity and callousness to support Lynas, no doubt due to his high sense of bodek-ness.