KUANTAN: All agencies involved must immediately look into the 31 recommendations made by the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Lynas rare earth plant, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai.
He said it was important to assure the people that their safety and health would not be compromised.
Liow also said that the company should explain why Australia would not accept the waste material since it promised that the radioactive level could be reduced.
The MCA's stand on the matter was that the waste should be sent out of Malaysia, he said after opening the annual general meeting for three MCA divisions here.
The PSC concluded in its report last week that Lynas should be awarded a temporary operating licence after finding that it had met the stipulated requirements.
On the Occupy Balok-Gebeng 24-hour rally organised by Himpunan Hijau, Liow said that such protests seemed to continue despite the Government's effort to ensure that the project was safe.
Anti-Lynas protesters failed to take their cause to the doorstep of the rare earth company yesterday but said that they would return to the site at a later date.
1. Lynas' letter of undertaking to ship the waste out of the country is reproduced in the PSC report (see figure). According to the letter, Lynas only agrees to ship out the waste generated during the Temporary Operating License (TOL) 2 years period, not the entire 20 years LAMP is projected to be in operation, which is what the public is made to believe [2].
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