NO is the Wrong Answer! The Stench of Nuclear Corruption

Cumbria County Council's Cabinet was looking likely to honour the wishes of the overwhelming majority of the County Council's councillors and their constituents and say NO to the Nukiller Dump. This would have been an end to the insane plan to dump high level nuclear wastes in a big mine under West Cumbria/Lake District. Following …

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Tricky Nuclear Joke on Beautiful Copeland…..

At the meeting last wednesday of Copeland Borough Council the nuclear dump was 'discussed.' Questions from the public have to be registered days beforehand in order for pat answers to be be provided. I'd registered early on my own behalf as a wildlife artist but we arrived 5 minutes late and I was initially refused …

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Silloth Protest & MEETING ON 3rd OCT

Yesterday on a sunny day in beautiful Silloth there was a protest. The message from the protest was a loud and clear NO to the government plan for the geological dumping of nuclear waste in Cumbria. Managing Radioactive Wastes Safely (DECC quango and stooge 'partners') have asked communities for their view on the process of …

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Arm Twisting of the Cumbrian Stooges

Baroness Vermer has now taken over from Charles Hendry - the heads change... the policy remains Radiation Free Lakeland has just heard on the grapevine that the 3 leaders of the three Cumbrian Councils have been summoned to a meeting in London with the new Secretary of State, Baroness Verma. The esteemed Baroness is responsible …

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Wednesday: Copeland Council Meeting – Show Opposition to Nukiller Dump

Please come along and show visible opposition to the Nukiller Dump. Eskdale/Ennerdale Granite is being eyed up as a geological dumping ground for nuclear wastes. Copeland Council Meeting this Wednesday 26th Sept at 5pm - the Copeland Centre, Whitehaven Email tim.capper@copeland.gov.uk (before 10 am on Monday) to register your question - you can speak for …

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“Grave Disquiet” Quaker Statement

Hell in a Grain of Sand - from a Poem by Norman Nicholson http://www.cleo.net.uk/consultants_resources/english/norman.swf Quaker Statement on Nuclear Waste , September 20th. On behalf of Swarthmoor SW Cumbria Quakers I am writing regarding grave disquiet at reports that a recent former Chief Scientific Advisor to the government as well as Copeland MP Jamie Reid have …

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Immoral Nuclear Blackmail

It is clear that the majority of councillors in Cumbria are opposed to going any further along the nukiller dump road the government has carefully mapped out for us. Their opposition is not part of the Government's preferred narrative (as continual quoting of the mori poll "support" and media blackout on the Communities opposition testifies). …

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A Statement made In the interests of Truth and Integrity in Public Affairs by Cumbrian Quakers: Nuclear Waste

STATEMENT from Swarthmoor SW Cumbria Area Quaker Meeting The disposal of High Level Nuclear Waste: Cumbrian Firsts. 1. A WORLD FIRST ? This is probably the first time anywhere in the world a site to dispose of the most hazardous wastes known will be sought NOT on the basis of the safest possible geology. 2. …

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Keswick Reminder Letter: Mind Blowing Nuclear Waste and Monkey Puzzles

Keswick Reminder 14th September 2012 Dear Editor, It is mind blowing to think that if nuclear waste had been around in the Carboniferous Period of 300 million years ago, when the Lake District was covered in primitive conifers, nuclear waste would still be a clear and present danger now. Layers of decaying primitive conifers now …

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