Perak MB’s claim that lanthanide mining project not located under CFS inaccurate, say groups


IPOH: Environmentalist groups have called on Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Saarani Mohamad to retract his statement about the lanthanide project in Hulu Perak being conducted outside the Central Forest Spine (CFS).

Leela Panikkar, Biodiversity Environment Agroecology Climate Change Habitas (Beacch) group lead coordinator, said Saarani’s remark was inaccurate.

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