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Saturday, June 11, 2011

No Lynas!





This reminds me of the movie, 'Erin Brockovich' ( based on a true story in California, in 1993 ).
Erin Brockovich-Ellis (born June 22, 1960) is an American legal clerk and environmental activist who, despite the lack of a formal law school education, or any legal education, was instrumental in constructing a case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) of California in 1993.The case alleged contamination of drinking water with hexavalent chromium, also known as chromium(VI), in the southern California town of Hinkley. At the center of the case was a facility called the Hinkley Compressor Station, part of a natural gas pipeline connecting to the San Francisco Bay Area and constructed in 1952. Between 1952 and 1966, PG&E used hexavalent chromium to fight corrosion in the cooling tower. The wastewater dissolved the hexavalent chromium from the cooling towers and was discharged to unlined ponds at the site. Some of the wastewater percolated into the groundwater, affecting an area near the plant approximately two miles long and nearly a mile wide.[6] The case was settled in 1996 for US$333 million, the largest settlement ever paid in a direct action lawsuit in US history. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Brockovich )
By the way, agree with the saying of one of the guys in the clip, "Although we are not yet 2020, but we are quite advance here and many of us are educated." ( True! Malaysians are not that naive, please! ) For those who are naive enough probably would say the Lynas is different from what had happened in California. Well, who really knows ?

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