Sure they're rich enough to buy Lynas - but they certainly won't like being sued.... These sorts of business families traditionally hate people taking a single extra cent off them.
While they may squander on luxury goods and acts of status-seeking, at the same time consider the workers that are brought to Malaysia to work in Oil Palm:
https://www.nst.com.my/opinion/letters/2018/09/415872/migrant-estate-workers-toil-tough-conditions
This article is from the
Malaysia establishment press. Far darker things aren't touched on. Now, when you're talking ordinary Indonesian peasants, should one inconvenience you, they say you can hire an Irian hit-man for as little as US$20 a head.
Issues, just there, for progressive activists to get their teeth into.
So perhaps it's only fair to judge Yeo's chosen family by her own principles and rhetoric:
The Family made big money in the most environmentally damaging industry in South East Asia - palm oil.
The burning of jungle, peatlands, and rainforest, much of it for palm oil, brought crippling "haze" to South East Asia, the costs of which (to others) run into the tens of billions. The health impacts where widespread and very serious.
There are thousand of experts to quote, on a feast of Palm Oil themes, Here's just one:
“Palm oil is decimating South East Asia’s rich diversity of species as it eats into swathes of tropical forest,”
"Since 2002, more than 150,000 orangutans are thought to have been wiped out as a direct consequence of the palm oil industry."
"The share of deforestation for oil palm plantations has actually risen in recent years, from 20 percent between 2001 and 2005 to 36 percent between 2006 and 2010"
And Global Warming:
"...looking forward, the impact of palm oil on forests and greenhouse gas emissions is projected to grow, according to a paper led by Nancy L. Harris of Winrock International. Assuming a business-as-usual approach toward expansion, Harris forecasts net emissions of 15.2 billion tons of CO2 by 2050 from the palm oil sector."
Oh Kitty, where have your billions come from?
No wonder Wong Tack is hiding his palm oil riches.
Due to use of agricultural chemicals, the soil on palm oil plantations is often more radioactive than Lynas by-product. So,
employing Kitty&Co-Speak"it is a factthat the extent of the "dangerous radioactive" contaminated waste soil caused by Palm Oil is massive - not just held at one isolated containment facility in Kuantan, but spread over huge areas of Malaysia, a terrible disaster for millions of Malaysian families and children.
By attacking Lynas, full well knowing her claims are dishonest, Yeo is damaging Malaysia's hopes of moving away from dependence on an environmentally-destructive plantation economy, to a high-value, high-tech, environmentally clean, future-facing, green-tech industry.
We know companies, like Siemens, wanted to join Lynas in investing in a future focused green-tech industry for Malaysia, where turned off by Yeo&Co's dishonest, destructive actions against Lynas.
Overall, Yeo&Co's ignorant hounding of Lynas smears Malaysia as primitive, dishonest and unfit for a modern economy.
Who is Yeo really harming?
If Yeo is pushing Malaysia backwards, then,
to employ "Kitty&Co-Speak", it is a fact that Yeo is ensuring Malaysian people will have few choices other than to slave for a pittance, on vast, toxic, radioactive, contaminated, plantations that are wrecking Malaysia's environment.
As a result of Yeo's actions, instead of pursing bright and brilliant, female-friendly, careers in world-leading, high-tech, green industry, Malaysian women instead face giving birth to children with two heads, zebra stripes, and elongated tentacles.
Surely just one journalist, say from that activist icon, the New York Times, has the wit to make an absolute emperor's banquet of progressive moral outrage out of Yeo's hypocrisy.
Come on guys, it would be huge fun.....
(20min delay)