Quoting my status on FB:
Q1- quotes Nicholas Curtis, Lynas’s executive chairman - "It would cost four times as much to build and operate such a refinery in Australia, which has much higher labor and construction costs. Australia is also home to an environmentally minded and politically powerful Green party"
Q2- The new Lynas refinery, with nearly two dozen interconnected buildings and 50 acres of floor space, will house the latest in pollution control equipment and radiation sensors. A signature feature will be 12 acres of interim storage pools that will be lined with dense plastic and sit atop nearly impermeable clay, to hold the slightly radioactive byproducts until they can be carted away.
But carted to where? That is still an open question.
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A1 - So WE are a cheap labor country who gives two shytes of the environment because we have 'an' non-environmentally minded and politically powerful party?????
A2 - I can think of a few holes where the byproducts can be stuffed to....

A2 ... LIN DAN's Arse ?