My walk with the Green Marchers
Posted on November 24, 2012
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Beras
November 24, 2012
These people…I take off my hat to them!! Their future generation will be so proud of what they did to make Malaysia a better place……..SALUTE!!
bigjoe99
November 24, 2012
Have to say, even if its a small group, the consciousness is admirable
May Chee Chook Ying
November 24, 2012
Feel so proud of you guys and so ashamed that I’m not with you people! God bless.
JK
November 24, 2012
New Balance and other sports shoe manufacturer should sponsor these people as part of their CSR programme.
Jong
November 24, 2012
You guys really had a good time huh! So very proud of you, TQ!
Alan Tong
November 24, 2012
I will be going to Dataran Merdeka tomorrow to lend moral support to you guys. See there!
shakuntala
November 24, 2012
Fine example Haris, on your part for having taken the trouble to walk and talk with the marchers, how happy you made them feel for their grand effort….
to give them the support they need at the Dataran tomorrow
What better incentive….for us,than copying your example, to be present tomorrow to cheer and support them, at the Dataran at 4 pm..
May we all get the strength and courage to be there.
Many thanks……for being the person you are ……. change bringer extraordinaire, in spite of your health, in spite of your committments.
Muhammad Azman
November 24, 2012
This takes me back, 25 years to be exact. Rare Earth Sdn Bhd. I presented a paper on its’ activities and the consequences/effect on mother nature. When rare earth was put to sleep years later, a sense of relief was felt though not completely. Radiactive substance which was dumped at Titiwangsa Range is still there and it will still be there for next 10 generations.
Never thought this ghost from the past will revisit me. This ghost called Lynas, is now haunting me again. The question is, does Lynas contribution to our ecomony so vital that the government sees it fit to the extend of putting our safety on the line? Without this investment, will this country’s economy take a downward spiral?
We have well diversified economy and the government can always promote those sectors. So why on something has that failed once (ruined our mother nature) being revisited.
Policy makers have rare qualities indeed.
storm days ahead
November 25, 2012
i hope malaysians can see what a rotten nation we have become….. that the toxic metal ores can come in under police escort and mat rempits are set upon these poor ordinary folks….
haris i despair to think of how bad and unsconscionable this govt has become…
what values are we talking about.. what pride is left … its just greed greed and more greed…
even indonesia is getting better…not us…
I salute you people for what you are doing… finally we all have to fight…. noone can sit on the fence….
and the idiot jib has the gall to say we are not broken.. why fix it… we are f….king broken… damn everything is…. cant think we can survive another 5 years of them and their incredible rapacious greed…..
come on this weekend …. bring out the keris again….
annabrella
November 25, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/business/energy-environment/09rare.html?pagewanted=1&ref=business&src=me
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/business/energy-environment/09rareside.html?ref=energy-environment
From Wikipedia:
“The Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) has been built near Kuantan, Malaysia. This location was chosen due to the site allegedly having all the resources required to run the plant AT A LOWER COST THAN ORIGINALLY APPROVED IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA. In addition, the Malaysian government granted the company “pioneer” status and OFFERED IT A 12-YEAR TAX EXEMPTION. The LAMP is scheduled to commence operations in 2012. The LAMP has attracted significant local opposition, and the whole approval process looks to have become politicised. Lynas indicates that by early 2013, it will be able TO SUPPLY 22,000 TONS OF RARE EARTH CONCENTRATES PER ANNUM.
An Australian Greens MP, Robin Chapple, has shot down Lynas Corp’s attempt to ship radioactive waste from Malaysia back to Western Australia state saying that the WESTERN AUSTRALIA NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE (PROHiBITION) ACT 1999 FORBIDS THE IMPORT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE.
On Sept 5, 2012, it was reported that Lynas (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd was awarded the temporary operating licence by Malaysia’s Atomic Energy Licensing Board for a period of two years. THE LOCAL COMMUNITY WAS NOT CONSULTED. The Lamp plant has been fraught with difficulty and it has generated strong opposition from Malaysians, unwilling to be the recipients of Australia’s wastes. The local residents have consistently protested the plant in various gatherings of up to 15,000 people. DESPITE THE WIDESPREAD CONCERNS ABOUT THE PLANT AND ITS LACK OF A PROPER LONG TERM DISPOSAL PLAN FOR ITS RADIOACTIVE WASTES, A TWO-YEAR TEMPORARY LICENCE HAS BEEN ISSUED. The approval seems like the sanctioning of an Australian mining company, ALLOWING IT TO MAKE USE OF LAX ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS AND GOVERNANCE ARRANGEMENTS IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY.
In September 2012, two members of the Western Australian Greens on the Legislative Council joined together with the large number of Malaysians who oppose the imminent shipment of radioactive ore from Mount Weld in Australia, to be processed at the Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (Lamp) in Gebeng, Kuantan. The ores are to be shipped through the Fremantle Port, where 22,000 tonnes may pass through the city, the alleged transportation arrangement was planned WITHOUT ANY CONSULTATION WITH THE FREMANTLE COMMUNITY.”
UMNO/BN and its wholesale unaccountability is once again dumping its own, as well as other peoples’ unwanted, garbage on Malaysians and taking unacceptable risks with Malaysian lives for years to come without any consultation whatsoever with the people who are affected by those unaccountable government decisions.
Does Malaysia really need these types of proven high-risk detrimental FDI from the likes of iffy investors like Lynas when Malaysia can easily attract proven low-risk beneficial FDI from the likes of clean high-tech investors like Dyson, Microsoft, etc.?
So, I take my hat off to these brave protestors and I hope they will succeed in booting out an opportunistic profit-only oriented Lynas from Malaysia and also in voting out their clearly unaccountable UMNO/BN government. Perhaps the protestors can join-up with the Fremantle community to stop the shipments from being sent to Malaysia from there.
“Imagine Power To The People” John Lennon.
Malaysianatheart
November 27, 2012
Sorry people, but it seems to me that the entire chinese community in Pahang was out there ….. where was the rest of our anak bangsa Malaysia??