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NEWS UPDATES MALAYSIA CORPORATE POLITICS & GOVERNMENT Ministers in discord over Lynas issue Chester Tay & Adam Akmal Aziz/ The Edge Financial Daily April 02, 2019 09:03 am +08 This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily, on April 2, 2019. KUALA LUMPUR: In a surprising turn of events, Entrepreneur Development Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Redzuan Md Yusof yesterday lambasted his colleague Yeo Bee Yin, who is the energy, science, technology, environment and climate change minister, for compelling Lynas Corp Ltd to ship out its wastes from the country, saying her stand was not one that was endorsed by the cabinet. He said Yeo has to “take responsibility” for her statement — issued in December last year — on the matter, saying the cabinet had never decided on any measure to manage the wastes produced by the Australian rare earth miner’s Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) in Gebeng, Kuantan, Pahang. The Alor Gajah member of parliament (MP) also said Lynas’ investment in Malaysia is “too big to ignore”, and that the cabinet is not supposed to force the company to export its plant’s wastes back to Australia, unless they are “very unsafe”. His comment, said to reporters in Parliament yesterday, came after he remarked on Saturday that the government would allow Lynas to continue its operations at LAMP in the interest of foreign direct investment. 1 Info shared by Perpustakaan EiMAS NEWS UPDATES Mohd Redzuan’s statement raised more than a few eyebrows, as the matter is not under his ministry’s purview. The episode happened after Deputy Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change Minister Isnaraissah Munirah Majilis told the Dewan Rakyat yesterday that the ministry had written to Yeo’s Australian counterpart to collaborate on the transfer of Lynas’ accumulated radioactive wastes from Malaysia to Australia.
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