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NGOs mulling legal action to stop the temporary operating license to Lynas

Kow Gah Chie & Ng Xiang Yi | Published: Today 5:22 am | Modified: Today 9:40 am

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A group of anti-Lynas NGOs are mulling taking legal action to stop the government from issuing a six-months temporary operating license to Lynas rare earth plant in Gebeng, Kuantan.

The group's lawyer Hon Kai Ping (below) said his client is considering doing so via a judicial review to squash the government's decision on the six-months operating license to Lynas.

"We may file a court injunction, to get more documents and also to stop the issuance of a (six-months operating) license to Lynas," he said.

"It could be a judicial review, but the lawyers have yet to meet (about this)," he said when attending the anti-Lynas rally at Taman Gelora, Kuantan today.
Hon expects the legal action to be taken within a month.

Meanwhile, environmental activist Tan Bun Teen, who led Save Malaysia Stop Lynas (SMSL) to condunct the rally today, said his group will be part of the NGOs to moot for the legal action.

"We will consider the possibility to initiate a judicial review on the recent decision by the government," he said.
licence for the rare earth processing plant owned by Australian miner Lynas Corp for six months.
However, with the renewal of its licence, Lynas must comply with several conditions imposed on it.
Among the conditions are the transfer of its cracking and leaching process to another country, and the construction of a permanent disposal facility
Lynas must also terminate all research and development activities on water leach purification radioactive residue as condisoil for agriculture.
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