The close down of the Bukit Merah Asian Rare Earth (ARE) in 1994 was due to public pressure both nationally and internationally despite efforts by the Government to help ARE to continue with its operation
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The Minister of Science, Technology and Environment states that the Papan Dump is safe because it is being built according to stringent standards. ......
19th September 1984
A three-man team from the United Nation IAEA visited the Papan Site and declared the trenches there as unsafe.
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28th October 1986
Professor Sadao Ichikawa on his second trip to Bukit Merah reveals that radiation around the Asian Rare Earth is still above the acceptable level. .......
8th December 1986
Minister Kasitah Gadam of the Prime Minister's Department said that radiation levels at two illegal dumps in Bukit Merah checked by AELB are safe. .........
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6th february 1987
Disregarding the High Court injunction to Asian Rare Earth (ARE) to stop operations, AELB granted a licence to ARE to resume operation.
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13th June 2010, Dr. Mahathir said," ....... we had to bury the amang (tin tailings) in Perak, deep in the ground ......"
Following his remarks, The Star has discovered that 80,000 (numbers of ) 200-litre drums containing radioactive waste are currently being kept at a dump behind Papan town. And the waste is thorium hydroxide and not amang.
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Click Chronology of Events in the Bukit Merah Rare Earth Development for more.
Will Lynas plant end the same way ?
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