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Police warning to anti nuclear protestors

Police Warn Of Stern Action Against Trouble Makers In Protest Against Plant, KUANTAN, May 11 (Bernama) — Police warned today that stern action will be taken against anyone trying to create chaos from the protest against the building of a rare earth plant in the Gebeng industrial area here.

Pahang police chief Datuk Saifuddin Abdul Ghani said the “protest programme”, including demonstrations and lecture sessions, was being closely monitored.

……The protestors alleged that the processing of rare earth would cause radiation injurious to the health of people in and around the area.

Social activists claimed that the plant would produce 20,000 tonnes of radioactive waste a year.

The sessions organised by the Atomic Energy Licensing Board and the state government to explain the project to the people do not seem to have had much impact…..http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=585620

May 12, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general