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First Weld war looms - Malaysians mobilise to fight Lynas plant
ACTIVISTS are planning a multi-pronged attack to try to stop the Australian miner Lynas Corp opening a rare earths processing plant in Malaysia.
Opposition parties, led by Anwar Ibrahim, are also planning to make the $230 million plant a key issue of the country's national elections, which must be held by April next year.
They have vowed to shut the plant if they oust the government. After months of delays, Lynas last week was given a two-year temporary licence to run the plant, near Kuantan, in Malaysia's eastern state of Pahang. It was to process material from Lynas' Mount Weld mine in Western Australia, seen as a potential game changer for the rare earths industry, dominated by China.
Mount Weld is the richest known deposit of rare earths, and prices have soared in recent years.
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Lynas' shares initially jumped 41 per cent on the news of the licence approval. Lee Tan, a former campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation who was born in Kuantan, said her "home-town folks'' had vowed to stop the hazardous project going ahead.
''The crunch time will be when the ore reaches Kuantan,'' she said. ''Many people have vowed to blockade the ore and are gearing up for that.'' Ms Tan said the plant was planned for an area with immense tourism potential, only 15 kilometres from a Club Med resort.
She said that as well as legal challenges in Malaysia, cases were being worked on in Australia.
''There is a legal ground to stop Lynas from exporting its ore due to
procedural irregularities in Australia," she said.
Wong Tack, chairman of the activist group Himpunan Hijau, said the port in Kuantan would be paralysed until the materials were taken away.
Ore is expected to start arriving there next month.
"The world will witness one of the biggest civil disobedience events in this nation," Mr Wong said.
Rare earth materials are used to make high-technology products such as smartphones, iPods and missiles.
Lynas' project has prompted public anger that has been vented at several large rallies across Malaysia.
In 1982, a rare earths refinery built by Japan's Mitsubishi in Malaysia's Perak state was closed after claims that it caused birth defects and leukaemia among residents.
But Lynas said it recognised its responsibility to run the plant safely under the oversight of Malaysia's Atomic Energy Licensing Board and insisted the operation was safe and complied with international standards.
Lynas said it built the plant in Malaysia because costs were cheaper than in Australia.
The company plans to truck ore to Fremantle, send it by container to Kuantan and then export the refined materials.
Malaysia's Prime Minister, Najib Razak, said the plant was "factually and scientifically safe".
But Mr Ibrahim has demanded that Australians ''hear the frustrations of Malaysians" over the project.
http://www.theage.com.au/business/first-weld-war-looms--malaysians-mobilise-to-fight-lynas-plant-20120912-25srb.html
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