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KUALA LUMPUR – Lynas had previously agreed to locate its cracking and leaching (C&L) facility outside of Malaysia as a condition for its operating permit here, said former minister Yeo Bee Yin who has questioned the rare earth mining company’s latest outcry against the requirement imposed by the government.
Four years ago, after the government imposed the removal of Lynas’ radioactive waste from Malaysia as a pre-condition for its licence renewal, the firm announced that they were able to satisfy the conditions imposed, Yeo said
“(They said that) they would build their C&L facilities in Kalgoorie, Australia.
“Three years later, from its series of recent statements, Lynas is again fighting very hard to be escaped from the condition imposed on them and that they had announced ‘to be able to satisfy’ in 2020,” the Puchong MP said in a statement today.
Yeo, who was energy, science, technology, environment & climate change minister from 2018 to 2020, said she supported the current government’s decision to stand its ground and continue imposing the condition that the C&L process which produces radioactive waste, be removed completely from Malaysia by July this year.
Lynas recently received a three-year extension on the operating permit for its plant in Gebeng, Kuantan, with conditions imposed that means the Australian miner’s appeal for the removal of certain requirements was rejected. – The Vibes, February 17, 2023
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