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年产量远超澳洲半世纪存量
辐射废料运返澳是天方夜谭

作者／陈式骢 Mar 07, 2012 06:21:15 pm

拆解稀土厂系列（一）

【本刊特约陈式骢撰述】马来西亚政府要求澳洲稀土公司莱纳斯把稀土厂废料运回澳洲，莱纳斯亦保证若没法备置永久埋毒槽，就会把废料运出国外，然而澳洲是低辐射废料国，且已签署禁止辐射性废料进入太平洋群岛国的《韦盖尼公约》，要将废料运回澳洲的说法可谓天方夜谭。

稀土厂最大的争议就是废料的处置，从一开始莱纳斯（Lynas Corp）在环境影响评估报告（Environment Impact Assessment, EIA) 和辐射影响评估报告（Radiology Impact Assessment Report, RIA）里提到的在地储存及废料循环到后来的永久性废料槽（Permanent Disposal Facility, PDF），再到把废料运回澳洲，莱纳斯和我国政府高官们就废料处置的立场一直在兜转。

莱纳斯设在澳洲韦尔德的矿厂。（图片来源：莱纳斯网站）

最新的消息是莱纳斯答应如果无法备置永久废料槽那么他们就会把废料运出国外。然而处置废料如此重要的议题，为何要等到工厂要运作之后才来讨论？难道环境局及原能局会相信在地储存及废料循环的说法？从一开始，马来西亚政府处理莱纳斯稀土厂的方式就已本末倒置。

若要把废料输出国，莱纳斯需要先定义他们的废料是何种废料。莱纳斯来关丹设厂时一直在强调废料的辐射性很低，低到可以被忽视的程度。现在问题来了，如果莱纳斯的废料是“非辐射性废料”那么在国际条约《巴塞尔公约》（Basel Convention）的限制下，我国没有可能输出工业废料，全球175个签署国也不可能接受来自马来西亚的废料。

如果莱纳斯把废料是定义为“辐射性废料”，国际上会有多少个国家会无条件接受这个烫手山芋？虽然《巴塞尔公约》无权管制辐射废料，但是澳洲却签署了另一个国际公约《韦盖尼公约》（Waigani Convention)。《韦盖尼公约》的条例就是要禁止任何辐射性废料进入太平洋群岛国，包括澳洲及纽西兰（注1）。

因此，现实的情况就是如果要把废料输出国或是送回澳洲，就得先越过法律上的种种障碍。就算是没有国际公约的约束，澳洲政府回收废料的意愿会高吗？

澳洲是一个低辐射废料国，根据澳洲核科技组织（Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, ANSTO）的《澳洲辐射废料管理》报告书，澳洲累计了50年才储存了少过两个奥林匹克泳池容量的低辐射性废料（注2）。但是莱纳斯在第一年运作所生产的辐射废料就可以填满63个奥林匹克泳池。【点击：每年废料可填满126个泳池 Lynas"零废料"可行性存疑】

韦尔德矿区是更合适地点

数据已经很清楚地显示，澳洲在短时间内根本没有设施和能力承担回收废料。当然最重要的一点是，西澳洲政府矿物及石油部长诺曼摩尔（Norman Moore）已明确回拒了莱纳斯废料输送回澳洲的建议。

因此，莱纳斯的保证信只是一张空头支票，一开始他们就已经决定了要把废料留在马来西亚，否则该公司就无需大费周章在马来西亚设厂，远道运载澳洲韦尔德山（Mt. Weld）的矿石到这里提炼。若真的可以把辐射性废料送回澳洲，那么莱纳斯干脆在韦尔德设厂就行了。

韦尔德山矿区地广人稀，比关丹适合开设稀土提炼厂。（图片来源：莱纳斯网站）

莱纳斯在澳洲韦尔德山的矿区是荒凉山区，地广人稀，原就是一个合适的建稀土提炼厂的地点。

莱纳斯此前回应马来西亚民众的质疑时说，该公司弃澳洲选马来西亚的原因是澳洲缺乏水源、缺乏大量的化学品来维持稀土厂的运作，以及马来西亚有熟练的工人等，但是马来西亚有漏水的国会大厦和法院、会倒塌的体育馆和会淹水的精明大道等，我国工人技术如何无需赘述，至于水源和化学品供应，岂能是莱纳斯弃澳洲选马来西亚的理由？

韦尔德山是个水源充足的地方。根据西澳政府环境保护部门（Department of Environment and Conservation）于2012年1月发给莱纳斯的“矿厂运作准证书”（Granting of works approval) 阐明（注3），莱纳斯可每年抽取28亿公升的地下水。除此之另一家公司Barrick Granny Smith（BGS）也会每年供应40亿公升的地下水给莱纳斯的矿场运作。

提炼稀土的确是需要大量的水和化学品，然而在稀土提炼过程里使用的大量的水和化学物品很多都是会被再循环使用，即是说即使稀土厂是建在韦尔德山的矿区里，运送大量化学品进去韦尔德山的过程绝对不可能比运送矿物来马来西亚繁复。为何莱纳斯宁愿每个星期通过1000公里的陆路（铁路加卡车）和4000公里的海运，连续20年不断把矿物送来关丹，也不愿选择间断性输送化学品到韦尔德山？

如果稀土废料真的那么安全，无需担心环境污染问题，为何莱纳斯还要选择这样一个繁复而又耗费的方法去到关丹设厂呢？直接把提炼厂建在矿场旁岂非最经济实惠的决定？

陈式骢是化学工程硕士，目前是无业游民。

注：

1 http://www.environment.gov.au/settlements/chemicals/hazardous-waste/conventions.html

2 http://www.ansto.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/46172/Management_of_Radioactive_Waste_in_Australia_v2.pdf（第5页）

3 portal.environment.wa.gov.au/pls/portal/url/ITEM/B60DA7BFDFD7B562E04010AC6E0515D0

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Media Release of DAP Secretary-General and Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng in Kuala Lumpur on 3rd February 2012

Media Release of DAP Secretary-General and Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng in Kuala Lumpur on 3rd February 2012

RE: Only Pakatan Rakyat(PR) Will Place More Importance On The People’s Health And Public Safety Than The Blind Pursuit Of Profits By Ensuring That There Are No Rare Earths Plants and Nuclear Facility In PR States.(en/bm/cn)

DAP regrets that BN government has shown that it is not committed to green and sustainable growth but instead is willing to sacrifice people’s health for profits. Malaysia’s Atomic Energy Licensing Board (AELB) has granted Australian company Lynas Corporation a temporary operating licence (TOL) for its controversial Pahang-based and also the world largest rare earth refinery plant provided it fulfils five conditions.

Instead of focusing on race and religion, perhaps Barisan Nasional should explain why they are allowing the Lynas Rare Earth Plant in Kuantan to be operated; despite all the dangers inherent and even its regulators themselves did not have a clear radioactive waste disposal proposal from Lynas. Among other issues, the Lynas’ waste management plan does not fully disclose the contents of its waste streams.

Two days ago the New York Times (NYT) had also reported that Dutch multinational AkzoNobel, a key contractor, had withdrawn from the project due to the safety concerns. Engineers involved in the project and internal emails showed that AkzoNobel withdrew from supplying the chemicals after it was told that the fibreglass liners would be installed in concrete-walled tanks that have a problem with rising dampness in the floors and cracks in the walls.

Followed by the issue of the conditional TOL, shares in Australian miner Lynas soared yesterday. Clearly, the irresponsible BN government is colluding with the industry interest group at the expense of the health and welfare of the hundreds of thousands of innocent Malaysians.

Last year, the BN government has brought a panel of radiological experts from the IAEA to review the case. However, not only does the panel contain no public health and environmental expert, the IAEA is also seen to be industry-driven, and is expected to rubber-stamp their approval.

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) has revealed that the Lynas project was fast-tracked for approval by the Pahang State DoE. The DoE received the Preliminary Environmental Impact Assessment (PEIA) on the 21st of January 2008 and approved it in early February. Why is DOE acting with unholy haste to give their approval for such a complex project involving potentially radioactive hazards with a very vague waste management, storage and disposal proposal?

In the light of the nuclear disaster in a highly-advanced country like Japan, the BN government should also abandon their plans to build two nuclear power plants by 2021. Lynas has always insisted the plant, which will handle rare earths imported from Australia, will be safe, but if that is so why did Lynas not build it in Australia? Is it because Lynas is unable to convince Australian environmental and health regulators that radioactive waste would not leak out thus threatening public health and the environment?

If even the Australian authorities are unwilling to face such hazardous risks despite their highly rated safety standards, how can BN be trusted to ensure the safety and health standards of such a dangerous and high risk project like nuclear plant or rare earths refinery plant? BN has a poor abysmal safety record when the BN government cannot even build a stadium without its roof collapsing or the roof of Parliament leaking? Up to now no one knows where or which state the next plant will be sited.

Only a PR ruled state will not take such risks. I have stated clearly that so long as PR rules Penang, there will be no rare earth refinery plant or nuclear power plants. For this reason the people of Pahang as well as other BN states should learn an important lesson that only a PR ruled state can ensure that there is no rare earths refinery or mines or nuclear facilities to threaten their health and safety of their families.

Let your votes decide in the next general elections whether you want a nuclear plant or rare earth refinery plant in the backyard of your home!

— BM Translation—

Kenyataan Akhbar Setiausaha Agung DAP dan Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang Lim Guan Eng di Kuala Lumpur pada 3 Februari 2012

RE: Hanya Pakatan Rakyat (PR) Akan Mementingkan Kesihatan Rakyat Dan Keselamatan Awam Daripada Mengejar Keuntungan Dengan Memastikan Bahawa Loji Nadir Bumi Dan Loji Nuklear Tidak Dibina Di Negeri-Negeri PR.

DAP berasa kesal bahawa Kerajaan BN jelas tidak berkomited terhadap pembangunan mapan dan hijau, dan sudi mengorbankan kesihatan rakyat demi keuntungan. Lembaga Perlesenan Tenaga Atom (AELB) Malaysia telah memberi Lesen Kendalian Sementara (TOL) kepada syarikat Australia Lynas Corporation untuk pembinaan loji pemprosesan nadir bumi yang terbesar di dunia di Pahang sekiranya mereka dapat memenuhi lima syarat yang ditetapkan.

Daripada menumpukan sumber dan tenaganya kepada isu-isu perkauman dan agama, adalah lebih baik Barisan Nasional menjelaskan kenapa loji nadir bumi di Kuantan dibenarkan untuk beroperasi, sedangkan projek itu berbahaya dan pihak pengawal selia sendiri tidak menerima cadangan pembuangan sisa radioaktif yang jelas daripada Lynas. Tambahan pula, pelan pembuangan sisa Lynas tidak mendedahkan sepenuhnya kandungan aliran-aliran sisa.

Dua hari lepas, New York Times (NYT) telah melaporkan bahawa syarikat antarabangsa dari Belanda iaitu AkzoNobel, salah satu kontraktor utama, telah menarik diri daripada projek tersebut ekoran kebimbangan keselamatan. Jurutera-jurutera yang terlibat dalam projek serta emel-emel dalaman telah menunjukkan bahawa AkzoNobel telah menarik diri daripada pembekalan resin setelah diberitahu bahawa lapik kaca gentian yang akan dipasang di tangki berdinding konkrit tidak memenuhi standard keselamatan dan piawaian.

Susulan pemberian TOL bersyarat, saham syarikat Lynas telah melonjak semalam. Adalah jelas bahawa Kerajaan BN yang tidak bertanggungjawab ini sedang berpakat dengan pihak-pihak industri sehingga menjejaskan kesihatan dan kesejahteraan beratus-ratus ribu rakyat Malaysia yang tidak bersalah.

Tahun lepas, Kerajaan BN telah membawa masuk sebuah panel pakar radiologi daripada IAEA untuk mengkaji kes ini. Namun demikian, panel tersebut bukan sahaja tidak mengandungi seorang pakar kesihatan awam dan persekitaraan, IAEA itu sendiri dilihat umum sebagai didorong oleh pihak industri, dan dijangka akan meluluskan projek tersebut.

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) telah mendedahkan bahawa projek Lynas telah mendapat kelulusan “fast-track” oleh Jabatan Persekitaran (DOE) Pahang. DOE telah menerima Penilaian Awal Impak Alam Sekitar (PEIA) pada 21 Januari 2008 dan meluluskannya pada awal bulan Februari. Kenapakah DOE memberi kelulusan dengan begitu tergesa-gesa dalam sebuah projek yang bukan sahaja rumit dan melibatkan sisa-sisa radioaktif yang berbahaya, tetapi juga tidak mempunyai pelan pembuangan dan penyimpanan sisa yang jelas?

Ekoran daripada bencana nuklear yang terjadi di negara maju seperti Jepun, Kerajaan BN harus meninggalkan sahaja rancangan mereka untuk membina dua loji nuklear menjelang 2020. Lynas selalu berkeras mempertahankan loji mereka yang akan memproses nadir bumi yang diimport dari Australia sebagai selamat, tetapi jika memang selamat kenapa tidak bina sahaja loji itu di Australia? Adakah ia kerana Lynas tidak dapat meyakinkan pihak pengawal selia persekitaran dan kesihatan di Australia bahawa loji mereka betul-betul selamat?

Sekiranya pihak berkuasa di Australia tidak sanggup menghadapi risiko yang berbahaya walaupun mereka mempunyai standard keselamatan yang tinggi, bagaimanakah kita boleh yakin bahawa BN akan memastikan standard kesihatan dan keselamatan projek yang berbahaya dan berisiko tinggi ini? BN mempunyai rekod prestasi yang tidak cemerlang apabila stadium yang dibina pun mengalami keruntuhan bumbung dan bangunan Parlimen pula bocor. Sehingga sekarang, tidak sesiapa tahu di mana loji seterusnya akan ditempatkan.

Hanya negeri yang ditadbir PR tidak akan mengambil risiko sedemikian. Saya telah lama menyatakan dengan bahawa selama PR berkuasa di Pulau Pinang, loji pemprosesan nadir bumi atau nuklear tidak akan dibina. Kerana itu, rakyat di Pahang dan juga negeri-negeri BN lain harus tahu bahawa hanya negeri-negeri yang ditadbir PR sahaja yang boleh memastikan tidak ada loji nadir bumi atau nuklear yang akan mengancam kesihatan dan keselamatan keluarga mereka.

Undi anda dalam Pilihan Raya Umum akan datang akan menentukan sama ada anda mahukan loji nuklear atau nadir bumi di kawasan rumah anda!

— Mandarin Translation —

民主行动党秘书长兼槟州首席部长林冠英于2012年2月3日在吉隆坡发表声明：

唯有民联才会注重人民的健康及公共安全，确保民联州属不会兴建稀土厂或核电厂，而不是盲目地追求利益。

国阵政府已经证明它并不是立志追求绿色与永续发展，而是为了利益愿意牺牲人民的健康，民主行动党对此感到遗憾。马来西亚原子能执照局（AELB）已经发出临时营运执照给澳洲莱纳斯公司，让他们必须遵守五项条件的情况下在彭亨州运作世界最大的稀土提炼厂。

与其不断地玩弄种族与宗教课题，国阵应该解释，为什么他们明知稀土厂存在这么多危险，甚至连管制单位也不知道莱纳斯稀土厂将如何处理辐射性废料，却允许他们在关丹设厂？其它的课题还包括，在莱纳斯的废料管理计划中，它们还未全面公布它们的废料内容。

两天前，《纽约时报》报道，稀土厂的其中一家荷兰化学品公司Akzonobel已经退出上述工程。从参与设厂的工程师的电邮内容发现，他们发现原本要安装玻璃纤维内衬（Fibreglass Liners）的混凝土储存槽出现底部潮湿、外壁出现裂缝的问题。

随着当局发出临时营运执照，澳洲矿商莱纳斯的股价也在昨天上涨。很明显地， 不负责任的国阵与工业利益团体勾结，牺牲成千上万名无辜马来西亚人的健康及福利。

去年，国阵政府请来了国际电子能机构的代表来审查此个案。无论如何，这个代表团并没有公共卫生及环境的专家，而国际电子能机构也被视为工业主导的团体，预料也将会似橡皮图章般给予得批准。

大马自然环境之友揭露，莱纳斯工程是彭亨州环境局加速批准的计划。州环境局在2008年1月21日收到初步环境评估报告，在二月上旬就批准了。这项工程涉及辐射公害、含混不清的废料管理、储存与废弃问题，为什么环境局要如此仓促地批准他们兴建如此复杂的工程？

就连高科技国日本也发生核泄危机，国阵应该放弃在2021兴建两座核电厂的计划。莱纳斯经常强调，他们从澳洲入口的稀土是安全的，如果是真的，那么为何莱纳斯不把提炼厂建在澳洲？还是因为莱纳斯根本无法说服澳洲的环境及卫生管制单位，有关辐射性废料不会泄漏，危害公共卫生及环境？

尽管澳洲政府拥有高级别的安全水平，他们也不愿面对稀土提炼厂的风险，更何况安全设备记录恶劣的国阵？就连体育馆顶盖会倒塌、国会大厦屋顶也会漏水，我们还能相信国阵将确保像核电厂或稀土厂这样危险及高风险的项目，符合公共安全及健康水平吗？直到今天，我们都不知道，下一次会轮到哪一个州属。

唯有民联执政的州属不愿意承担这种风险。我已经说过，只要民联执政槟城，这里就不夫有稀土厂或核电厂。因此，彭亨州以及其它国阵州属的人民都应该要吸取这个重要的教训，那就是只有民联执政的州属才能保障人民的健康与安全，不兴建稀土提炼厂或矿场或核电设施，来伤害人民的健康及安全。

来届大选，就让全民投票决定，你要不要核电厂或稀土厂兴建在你家的后院！

林冠英

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Cartoon: Court Injunction against Lynas Malaysia Sdn Bhd, MITI, MOSTI and etc.

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Malaysia Today - Al Sheikh Al Juburi’s Faithful Assistant & Clique

Tuesday, 27 December 2011 admin-s

Parti Keadilan Rakyat is becoming more Umno-like than Umno itself these days and Al Sheikh Al Juburi’s Faithful Assistant & Clique are responsible for it. If the Azmin-Zuraida team is capable of doing what they are doing now to PKR, imagine what they will do if Pakatan wins the next general elections without DSAI to control these two.

By Hakim Joe

One may ask, “Who the Hell is Al Sheikh Al Juburi and who is this Faithful Assistant that is being referred to?” The answer can be acquired from Mat Sabu (PAS Deputy President).

Back in the dark ages (1977) when DSAI was still the Finance Minister and DPM of Malaysia and prior to Sodomy I, Mat Sabu made this reference against DSAI as a tit-for-tat after Ummi Hafilda lodged a complaint to A/L Kutty that his deputy is bonking his driver, one Azizan Abu Bakar from the rear and one Shamsidar Taharin (Azmin Ali’s missus) from the front. This was pure revenge for DSAI’s chief conspiratory role in having Mat Sabu caught for “close proximity” at Hotel Perdana in Kota Bharu on January the 31st, 1995, two years after the Kelantan State Legislative Assembly approved the motion on Hudud and Qisas.

Jubur refers to the posterior or the rear end, but in Kelantan it also refers to the female private part. Mat Sabu chose such an appropriate tag to describe DSAI as an abnormal individual who have preferences for the front part (Shamsidar) and the posterior (Azizan Abu Bakar). Realmente Magnifico!

History has of course acquitted DSAI of Sodomy I and Mat Sabu had to literally eat his words but it has also provided Umno with the ammunition to re-launch Sodomy II. This article however does not make reference to either Sodomy I or its sequel but concentrates purely on Al Sheikh Al Juburi’s faithful assistant and his coterie of henchmen who are becoming more like Umno than Umno itself.

Mohamed Azmin bin Ali was born in Singapore on August the 25th, 1964 (Year of the Dragon), which makes him Singaporean by birth. However his education was purely KL stuff, first at the English-based primary school, Gurney Road School [2] (now SK Jalan Gurney) and its secondary education at Technical Institute in Jalan Cheras (now SM Teknik Cheras). From thereon it was to the University of Minnesota where he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Economics (1986) and his Master of Education in Mathematics and Economics a year later.

First job home in Malaysia was as a Special Officer to the Minister of Education and two years later in 1989, Azmin was promoted to being DSAI’s private secretary. He served in the same capacity after DSAI was first promoted to being the Finance Minister (1991) and then later to be the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia (1993).

One year before DSAI was sacked from Umno in 1998, Azmin took a two-month hiatus from work to enroll at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University where he successfully completed an Executive Training Program on Political Administration. At this juncture of time, Azmin had already accumulated a full decade of political experience and was groomed to be someone of note but his initial plans were seriously derailed after DSAI was dismissed from all his political positions.

However this proved to be somewhat of a blessing in disguise, as he was elected Selangor State Assemblyman for Hulu Kelang in 1999, and therefore launched his political career earlier than if he was still DSAI’s private secretary.

In November 2001, while DSAI was still in jail, Azmin was elected as a Vice President of Keadilan and in 2008, he won the Gombak parliamentary seat and Bukit Antarabangsa state seat in Selangor. By now he had over twenty years of political experience and with no one evidently challenging him on his smooth and sheltered ride to the upper echelons of PKR, Azmin brought together an assembly of his loyal supporters and delegates that climbed the party ladder together without a notable hitch (except for Khalid Ibrahim) and fully backed by the defacto leader himself.

When Keadilan merged with Parti Rakyat Malaysia in 2002 and launched itself in 2003 as PKR, Azmin was still pretty confident of his position within the newly merged party. However he was knocked down one notch when Khalid Ibrahim was selected as the Menteri Besar of Selangor after the 2008 state election victory.

Then came Zaid “Sea-Biscuit” Ibrahim one year later in 2009 and this intimidated Azmin’s “now seemingly precarious” position in PKR and within Pakatan Rakyat itself.

From the onset, it was seen that Zaid was his own man and not someone else’s poster boy. This was his first big mistake as his escalating popularity was challenging Azmin and posed as an affront to DSAI, and this made the entire PKR EXCO gang up on him (less the few loose cannons). As a recent former Umno minister, Zaid did not understand how the PKR party politics were being played and by standing out as a candidate that could pose as a serious replacement for DSAI so soon after joining PKR, he was in fact threatening Azmin’s position, status and future.

The second mistake Zaid did was his attempts to entrench himself as the number two man in PKR and Azmin was not having any of that.

Even when Zaid was grabbing national headlines alongside DSAI, the latter acknowledged the fact that PKR is in reality stronger with Zaid and therefore portrayed itself as a creditable replacement to Umno. Additionally, DSAI also knows that Zaid could not possibly challenge him as the defacto leader of PKR and that should Pakatan win the next general elections, DSAI will unquestionably become the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

The scenario is however completely different with Azmin. With Zaid showing tremendous form, one of the DPM seats (DSAI proposed 3 DPM posts, one each from the three coalition parties) suddenly looked awfully remote and getting further and further away from his outstretched grasp, and something had to be done to curb his ominous headlong slide to mediocrity. The PKR party elections hence became the definitive battleground to rein in Zaid (and along the way Khalid as well) and to resolve the issue once and for all and Selangor was chosen to be the ultimate frontline, no holds barred.

The controversy laden 2010 PKR party elections proved to be tainted by allegations of vote rigging, undemocratic practices, existence of two different register rolls, missing ballot boxes, fraud, electoral misconduct, double standards, bribery, etc and its corresponding results became so dubious that Azmin-crony Molly Cheah, the PKR party election committee chairperson, was taken to task over the final announced results. Hell, even A/L Kutty was pleasantly surprised with the Umno-tactics used in the PKR party elections. Nonetheless, Azmin and his clique have done their damage and finally, Zaid and Khalid were left standing alone.

Zaid resigned from PKR and Azmin took full advantage to be appointed the PKR Chief of Selangor, replacing incumbent Khalid Ibrahim, the Selangor MB who was reassured that he shall remain the Selangor PKR Chief by PKR President Kak Wan less than a month ago (29 days to be exact). For those who stood by him, all were suitably rewarded. PKR Wanita Chief, Zuraida Kamaruddin became the PKR Deputy Chief of Selangor. Zakaria Abdul Rahim aka Zakaria Bola was selected as the PKR Pandan Chief (even when the corresponding
party elections was a tie between him and incumbent Nik Md. Zain Nik Mohmad). Mansor Othman and ninety percent of all PKR honchos and cohorts were praised and rewarded. N. Surendran was appointed as one of the party’s Vice Presidents. Datuk Dr Tan Kee Kwong was retained as the party disciplinary bureau chairman. For the remaining 10 percent who was not of the DSAI-AA-ZK gang, the witch-hunt began in earnest.

Amongst the “biggies” on the list, Batu Kawan division women wing chief Dr. Joyce Lee Yueh Choo was the first one to be served suspension papers (later sacked). Wangsa Maju MP Wee Choo Keong was next to go. Mustaffa Kamil Ayub, Padang Serai MP N. Gobalakrishnan and Nibong Tebal assemblyman Tan Tee Beng were sidelined. Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad was ignored and many municipal councilors who defied Azmin or Zuraida had their appointments terminated. PKR Deputy Secretary General, Jonson Chong of Kelana Jaya were amongst the 29 active members that were sacked. 10 members were suspended and 12 others received warning letters. Even Tian Chua did not have sufficient clout to stop the “cleansing” ala Mao’s Cultural Revolution style elimination of all resistance within the party while Wan Azizah pretended ignorance.

Anyone suspected of not condoning the “Cult of DSAI-AA” were systematically dismissed from the party (and it is still happening now). PKR Deputy Chief of Selangor, Zuraida Kamaruddin then took this opportunity to do a bit of personal cleansing and started sacking anyone who question her actions and sidelined those who does not serve her purpose (including the time she instructed all Selangor’s PKR Cabang’s official minutes that were detrimental against her be “misplaced”). Way to go.

Yes, PKR really needed to clean up their house a long time ago but it should be done against those who opposes the Party’s ideology, not those who would not support either DSAI, AA or ZK. Keadilan should stand for the people not these three individuals alone. PKR, as with DAP and PAS, is about presenting themselves as a viable alternative to BN, and not acting like them. PKR should act like a political party and not a cult.

With DSAI possibly going in for another stint after Sodomy II, Azmin is now attempting to present himself as the only suitable candidate to lead PKR and Pakatan to GE13, and to do so he needs 100 percent backing from PKR itself, henceforth the cleansing exercise that is turning the party upside down.

Parti Keadilan Rakyat is becoming more Umno-like than Umno itself these days and Al Sheikh Al Juburi’s Faithful Assistant & Clique are responsible for it. If the Azmin-Zuraida team is capable of doing what they are doing now to PKR, imagine what they will do if Pakatan wins the next general elections without DSAI to control these two.

Be warned. Be especially warned.

http://www.malaysia-today.net/mtcolumns/guest-columnists/46104-al-sheikh-al

星洲日報 - 萊納公司關丹設稀土廠‧澳州一組織要入稟打官司

萊納公司關丹設稀土廠‧澳州一組織要入稟打官司

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2011-12-03 19:01

（吉隆坡3日訊）拯救大馬委員會代表陳麗玉表示，澳洲的法律非政府組織正在探討針對萊納公司在關丹設立稀土廠的事宜，入稟澳洲法庭起訴該公司。

她昨日在大馬律師公會及吉隆坡法律援助中心舉辦的“萊納關丹稀土廠計劃環境論壇”上說，澳洲的法律非政府組織發現，萊納在關丹設立稀土廠的處理上，可能抵觸了澳洲的企業法令及交通法令。

她舉例，萊納的負責人可能在處理關丹稀土廠計劃的申請過程時，利用澳洲交通法令的漏洞，申請將西澳韋爾德山（Mount Weld）的稀土礦物運至大馬提煉。

指無危害性說法錯誤

她指出，萊納聲稱稀土廠不會危害關丹及稀土廠附近居民的健康，是錯誤的說法。

化學及環保工程師陳嘉慶教授披露，任何與化學物質有關的工廠及提煉廠不可能達到對人體“零傷害”的指標，最多只能達到“可以被人體接受的傷害水平”。

他說，一旦關丹稀土廠投入運作，該廠將在30年內製造高達690萬噸的放射性廢料及23萬噸的固體廢料，而至今為止，萊納仍未提出一項妥善處理放射性廢料的方案。

彭亨州律師公會主席韓啟立立指出，關丹稀土廠將是全球最大的稀土提煉廠，每年提煉2萬2千噸的稀土，勢必影響附近地區居民的健康，可能受影響居民約有70萬人。

傷害性非僅限關丹範圍

此外，職業健康及安全專家加雅巴蘭教授透露，人民在處理稀土廠課題上應該採取3項策略，即除去造成危害的稀土礦物、促請有關當局阻止稀土廠的運作，以及使用防護用具處理稀土。

他說，最好的方法就是向政府施壓，避免萊納在關丹設立稀土廠，因為稀土廠造成的傷害不只限於關丹範圍，稀土礦物參雜了塵埃後，可以通過風傳播至1千公里以外的地區。

出席論壇者包括拯救大馬委員會主席陳文德及霹靂紅泥山事件居民代表律師古迪爾星。

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