Nod for Lynas

The Parliamentary Select Committee that was set up to investigate the people's grievance over the setting up of the rare earth refinery plant in Gebeng, Kuantan, in my mind was yet another age-old way to deal with public objection.

The Committee might be described by the social activists and NGOs as just a group of unprepared appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.  Its 31 recommendations in favour of the project were not unexpected.

Malaysian leaders must grow up and not be influenced by people who do not have concern for the long term impact of radioactive emission of the rare earth waste on the people's health and well-being.

The investors from down-under have yet to provide a good reason why their project was rejected by their Government to be built and operate in Australia.  The only sound reason that I can advance is that the Government cares for the welfare of its people and listen to them.  Whereas our Government could not care two hoots for her people. She does not seem to learn from the  history of what had  happened to the people in Bukit Merah in Perak.  The untold aftermath was silenced by the might of the corrupt state government.

The Star headlined Wednesday 20 June 2012 that the Parliamentary Select Committee has given its approval for a temporary licence to be given to the Aussie company to operate the plant in Gebeng.  Does the Committee have the invested authority to grant approval or recommendation for the setting up of the plant?  Star is putting words into the mouth of the PSC!

By arriving at the conclusion and making its recommendations public, has not the PSC committed a subjudicial action if not blunder prempting a fair hearing at the High Court  on 12 July 2012?  This sort of game had been played far too often.

What the PSC did appears to give the impression to the public at large that its decision has been pre-meditated.  Is the Government afraid that the High Court may arrive at a verdict that may overturn her early decision to allow the Aussie Company to operate the project in Gebeng on a temporary or trial basis?  What sort of eyewash decision is this?  It is either go or no go.

The masses cannot tell the Government what to do.  In this country, The Government is the Supremo who does what she thinks fit,  She will tell you what to do but you are not expected to do what she does.  What sort of Government is this?  It is so much like all the Governments in the Middle-East countries whose greed, power-craziness and corruptedness have brought so much of turmoil and miseries to the people.

In my opnion, the rigmarole stinks of remiss, nonchalence and mal-practice.