tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8218905194749721714.post2508067730386709446..comments2023-10-15T22:25:49.503+08:00Comments on Hawkeye: The REFERENDUM on LYNAS RARE EARTH PLANTAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14911256124110730950noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8218905194749721714.post-16250964480359356952011-06-03T09:58:22.401+08:002011-06-03T09:58:22.401+08:00China’s rare earth industry each year produces mor...China’s rare earth industry each year produces more than five times the amount of waste gas, (including deadly fluorine, radio-active radon, and sulfur dioxide), than the total flared annually by all miners and oil refiners in the U.S. Alongside that 13 billion cubic meters of gas comes 25 million tons of waste water laced with cancer-causing, DNA damaging heavy metals such as cadmium. Malaysia plans to refine one third of China`s output of REE!!<br /><br />Re thorium 232 with its 28 billion year full life.<br /> <br />The New York Times reported last October, that the tailings pond at Baotou, China is leaking an underground bloom of thorium that is moving toward the Yellow River at 300 meters per year; the river is 7 kilometers away. The Chinese have since confirmed this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com