Lynas corporate and business development vice president Matthew James has denied that the plant will be dangerous and told the Malaysian Insider that radiation will be minimal as the raw material used has only 2 percent of the thorium found in the material processed in Bukit Merah.
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Skeptics are roaring loudly with full tank pessimism, and protesters bravely gathered in a large crowd and launched their loud remarks against the establishment of Lynas' new refinery plant in Gebeng, Kuantan. And if you guys noticed, petition opposing the collective agreement made by our dear titans is knocking on each one of our facebook doors, pleading the people to make the right stand; and that is to recounter the sanction made by the government with our own (the people) collective voice.
The reasons for this issue to be muttered in such intense, heavy discussions that circulated rampantly around the country, since the first it is made known to the public's knowledge are justifiable of course. The people do not simply being jumpy without sensible course. One thing for sure, this issue involves heavily on the matter of radioactive waste.
Have you heard of cost-benefit analysis (CBA)? A method that is widely used by the government/ firms/ corporates/ even by fucking retards like us to evaluate the desirability of a decision - a monetary-based approach, however not wholly. The economic prophecy suggested that the refinery would generate $1.7 billion a year in exports starting late next year. This prediction means that this particular investment would function as the country's profit generator, aside than it is able to guarantee the prosperity of our economy.
This is the sort of established trajectory that the government has to follow when they weighed the pros and cons of this refinery plant. But poor the government since its dementia finally kicked in out of the blue, they have forgotten the existence of another essence parts of this method: the non-monetary costs and benefits. And for this case, the non-monetary spill over effects onto the third party, which is the people living at/near Gebeng.
Such commotion is not just tittle-tattles that can be leisurely dismissed by articulating some plain and unconvincing as the aforesaid statement. Precedent of likewise scenario can be seen at Bukit Merah, a place where a rare earth refinery had been established in the early 90's by Mitsubishi Chemical. Back then Tun Mahathir assured the people that it was safe, and such affirmation by the county's leader managed to appease the people. Hence we continued unhesitatingly with the project. However unfortunate no one knew that was completely misleading and the country was violently shocked with the peril of radioactive leak tragedy and it had caused the group hitherto to spend hundreds of millions dollars for the clean up project. Yet that was not the summit of the tragic incident. Decades after, the waste that contaminated the soil and the water is still not fully cleaned with strings of accusations laid upon the group by the people of birth defects and diseases such as leukemia cases: cases that Mitsubishi Chemical claimed they would not held responsible for.
Another fundamental question that has been stirring occasionally in the people's mind is; Why was at first, the proposal by Fynas had been rejected by its own people? As a matter-of-fact, Australia is revered as the home to an environmentally minded and politically powerful Green party. Therefore, to render an approval to such establishment on its soil would have caused them feeling reluctant to do as such, knowing the severe impacts the potential hazards could inflict to the country, especially to the people. However this bold rejection by the Australian government failed to transmute the message to the Malaysian government since it has welcomed Fynas with its warmest embrace- a total opposite, shocking action sorely made by our government.
Malaysia without no doubt is being stubborn, or to bluntly put it into one plain term, ignorant. Fynas openly claimed that it would cost them four times as much to operate the refinery in Australia. Their objectives is to cripple China's monopoly power of the rare earth productions that has been conquering the global market for quite awhile, thus by having cheaper costs of productions would simply lavish Fynas the opportunity of being able to compete in the same league as the China is, while possessing an extra advantage of having a cheaper product- a prospect that they would not be able to grasp if only they had decided to establish it in Australia. But to look it at a different angle, does this means Malaysia is relatively easy? I mean, all Fynas had to do was, they just had to present some statistical data of this and that, uttered some deceitful promises through their teeth of how promising this idea would be: more money, more money, more money, and well as the saying goes, money makes the world go round. And off they go walking freely on our soon-to-be-tarnished-soil with 12 years worth of tax holiday. Come on, Malaysia. This is just sickening.
Another thing that hit me was, Rosmah. Remember the crude comments made by Rosmah regarding the Japan's matter? She 'cleverly' pointed out with his fat sausage-looked fingers what caused Japan to crumble was the result of negligence in conducting environmental friendly developments. To tell you what, I personally think that douche-botoxface-bag is merely talking to her country. Rephrase it you dimwit. Malaysia would soon be one of the victims of such negligence, provided that our country overlooked the seriousness of what had painfully happened at Bukit Merah. And if the government fails to design a definitive, indispensable solution to overcome the possible recurring incident, hence the government is advised to withdraw from its action otherwise this country would be in a deep, major trouble once again. So much of deja vu. Besides,China has also stopped its construction on nuclear plants for reevaluation plans. The Japan's tragedy has simmered and raised concerns across the world and this has shaken all countries especially the ones with massive nuclear power plants. More apparent evidence laid bare for Malaysia government to put its scope at.
Malaysia should be more receptive to all subjects that have frightened its people and nursed them through this nightmare cordially, not by just coaxing them with some beautiful rhythmic promises. As if we do not know the pretentious concerns over the people's welfare (hah) when it is actually, and solely all about money and fattening your own bellies and your crony's, just the same. Hypocrisy has been masked with that angelic-looked ministers talking levelly with the people, where the hidden fact is that their abilities to serve the people are eroded as fast as, or even faster than their minds corrupted. Nah the only matter that concerned them right now is on how to morosely and savagely kill one another, and being the leader of the pack is basically their cohesive mission.
And what the hell is that about where they discussed on 'Oh we do not watch porn and yadayadayada' ? For fuck sake, just watch that bloody porn you dumbass we do not even give a damn. That is not bloody serious that you can put it up in our newspapers. Just jerk off happily at your bedrooms/ toilets/ offices, and afterwards when your clean shaved, bald heads are finally cleared that you can think properly, do your works - serve your people's needs, not yours. If the same bloody topic is uttered endlessly, I'd love to suggest this: How about if you come out with one goddamn idea how to pip India, since India is expected to pip China this year, rather than merely talking about dirts.
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