KUALA LUMPUR: The government requires more information on Western Australia’s reported refusal to accept radioactive waste from Lynas’ rare earth processing plant in Gebeng, Kuantan, says Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.
“We need to discuss with the Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change (MESTECC),” she told reporters at the parliament building, here today.
Yesterday, a local news portal reported Western Australia’s Minister of Mining, Petroleum, Energy and Industry Relations, Bill Johnston as saying that Australia would not accept such waste back from overseas although he acknowledged that the best means of disposal was at its place of origin.
Last month, MESTECC deputy minister Isnaraissah Munirah Majilis disclosed that minister Yeo Bee Yin had on Feb 26 sent a letter to Australia for cooperation in ensuring that the waste from Lynas was returned to Western Australia.
The ministry wants the country to help find a way to facilitate disposing of the Water Leach Purification (WLP) residue, which was supposed to be sent to Australia before September as part of the company’s licensing requirements. - Bernama
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