This admission is illustrative of the hard-nosed intellectual humility that makes Lynas so persuasive.
Borst, once an opponent of GMOs, went through a Lynas-like conversion of his own.
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Lynas says it intends to process the radioactive waste into other materials, such as road surfacing, diluting it.
Analysts say the obstacles Lynas has faced in Malaysia prevented it from enjoying a boom in rare-earths prices.
Lynas's Mr. Curtis concedes the opportunities lost but views the market as now being on a more sustainable growth path.
Lynas insists he remains optimistic that climate change need not spell utter devastation, but the central message is unequivocally bleak.
Mr Lynas confirmed that the church would continue to pay a salary to Mr Dickinson for a maximum of 18 months.
However, the Presbyterian Church's director of communications, Stephen Lynas, said they were providing both pastoral and financial support to Mr Dickinson.
Unlike Sykes, Lynas at least appreciates that he is unlikely to have the last word on how these boundaries are drawn.
That, in turn, has created a boom time for would-be rare earth miners like Lynas (OTC: LYSDY) and Avalon (TSE: AVL).
That has raised alarm among Malaysians who fear the government hasn't done enough to ensure the safety of the Lynas plant.
More prominently known is Lynas ( AX: LYC) and its rich Mt.
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The area affected stretches from Carmel Point to Point Lynas on Anglesey.
Lynas' predictions, an aggregate of hundreds of scientific papers, make shocking reading.
Lynas currently has a concentration plant under construction at Mount Weld in Western Australia as well as an advanced materials plant in Kuantan, Malaysia.
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The company's stock has continued to drift south, underscoring the difficulties still facing Lynas's plans to become a breakthrough player in the global rare-earths market.
In December, four cabinet ministers warned in a joint statement that Lynas must export all waste material from its plant or see its operations suspended.
Last month, Lynas secured a victory when the High Court in Kuantan dismissed protesters' allegations that Malaysian authorities improperly awarded the firm an operating license.
Lynas cogently detailed a number of reasons why he was both wrong and wrongheaded in the role he played spearheading the anti-GMO movement in Europe.
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Presumably, it was a hard step for Lynas to have taken.
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He and the other protesters hadn't taken much of an interest in environmental issues until Lynas began building its plant at the Gebeng industrial estate near Kuantan.
Lynas Corp is about to commission its Malaysian separation plant: when that whole system is in full production we might be talking of another 20, 000 tonnes a year.
Lynas's shares fell 2.4%, to 61 Australian cents, on Monday.
Mr. Tan and his friends, for their part, filed a series of actions specifically aimed at damaging Lynas's ability to secure additional funding and force it to give up.
Mark Lynas' Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet has already been turned into a TV programme and is now almost certain to experience a jump in sales.
Between 2004 and 2005, 14 percent of the Arctic Ocean's perennial ice disappeared - some 720, 000 square kilometers (447, 000 square miles) -- a depletion Lynas calls "instantaneous" in geological terms.
Lynas, famed in Europe, was relatively unknown in the U.S until this current controversy and the significant media attention and social media commentary that were subsequently garnered stateside.
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By focusing on anti-GMO demonstrators in Germany, the cover piece also ignored the evolving views in Europe, illustrated most dramatically by the public conversion of former anti-GMO campaigner Mark Lynas.
As Lynas points out, his was no Road-to-Damascus conversion.
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