Nuclear Nightmare To Expand in Lancaster Area? Heysham 3 ??? NO!

  ~The Nuclear Nightmare Continues....unless.....we stop it.  Some say that it won't be public pressure or environmentalists that stop nuclear but it will be the finance, the profligate, unending use of public money.  This sounds wonderful but it does not of course account for the underlying reason why the government wants new nuclear.  New nuclear …

Nuclear Safety and Hurricanes

Radar showing Hurricane Irma with its eye north of Cuba and south of the Florida Keys. Turkey Point Nuclear Power Station sits just north of Key Largo on Biscayne Bay. Turkey Point Nuclear (and non-nuclear) Generating Station on Biscayne Bay. According to the Miami Herald, “FPL shuts down one nuclear reactor at Turkey Point” BY […] …

Today in Bowness – Rally to Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole

A BIG THANK YOU to all (including the swans) who came along today to Bowness to meet and shout out a big NO to Coal. A big thank you also to the few media outlets who have broken the silence on this. We are still waiting to see some Grrr or at least some critical […] …

Rally Tomorrow in Bowness 2Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole

one of the banners “Stop Coal, Keep it in the Hole….too near Sellafield” “At least ∼21% of ML ≥ 1.5 earthquakes between 1970 and 2012 in the UK were anthropogenic. Since the 1980s the fall in anthropogenic earthquakes was due to the fall in UK coal production.” Look forward to seeing people tomorrow in Bowness …

60th Anniversary of the Windscale Fire

  This year on the 10th October it will be 60 years since the UK's first nuclear disaster.  Radiation Free Lakeland, Close Capenhurst, Stop Hinkley, Kick Nuclear, Stop Wylfa, South West Against Nuclear, Nuclear Trains Action Group and many others will be remembering the disaster and working to ensure there is no repeat. This is …

Coal – Lets Do the Time Warp Again?

https://www.youtube.com/embed/tkplPbd2f60?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent West Cumbria Mining say “ locals still remember with pride their role in providing valued resources to the rest of the UK and it is this feeling that West Cumbria Mining hopes to bring back to the area through the opening of the new mine”. Is Cumbria in a time warp where mining and …

Rally to Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole – @Bowness Bay 10th Sept from 12 noon

Please Join us on sunday 10th September @Bowness Bay to show opposition to the plan for the first new coal mine in the UK for decades. It is planned off the beautiful coast @St Bees near the worlds biggest nuclear waste dump @Sellafield. There has been opposition from many organisations pointing out that this is …

Environment Agency, Friends of the Earth and Others Object to Coal Plan So Why Don’t We Know about it?

This weeks Whitehaven News carries a triumphant article straight from West Cumbria Mining’s press release? -( if only our press releases were given such unquestioning prestige) A little of their own research on Cumbria County Council’s website would have told newspaper editors the following… “We are particularly concerned in regard to the potential impact upon […] …

My Heart Faileth When I Behold Radioactive Rainbows In The Sky

What would Wordsworth Say?

Mining Awareness +

A UK so-called planning firm “One Creative Environments” has proposed the most bizarrely stupid idea for “beautifying” the proposed Westinghouse-Toshiba AP 1000 Nuclear Power Station (Moorside) in Cumbria, UK – fake rainbows over the nuclear site. But, there will be real radioactive rainbows due to the planned radioactive discharges from the nuclear power station, making the fake rainbows as sickening as silly. The uranium might even come from the area of the Grand Canyon, as explained further below.

As Radiation Free Lakeland points out “This isn’t a spoof, wish it was it would be the best ever….” In an embarrassment to the concept of planning in general and British Town and Country planning in particular the “plan” calls for “two large glass towers that would use light and mist to create a continual arching rainbow over the site….” See image and more here: https://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2017/07/27/nuclear-power-farts-rainbows-official/

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Recycling Radioactive Scrap Metal – What Could Go Wrong?

Last weeks headline in the Whitehaven News “New business will recycle spare food” sounds like a very good thing. Only read a little further and all is not what it seems. "Recycle Lives" is a scrap buying and reprocessing business with a Sellafield contract. Usually scrap metal merchants buy in scrap metal for melting down …