https://youtu.be/M1dzDFvtMTc On this day in Carlisle Cumbria County Council voted NO to the proposed Geological 'Disposal' Facility for intermediate and high level nuclear wastes. Government however is desperate to be seen to have a "final plan" for nuclear wastes. This is so that they can make more, ever hotter, with dangerous new fuel burnt in …
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Fantastic News that Sweden has rejected the plan in their country for a geological nuclear dump. Ten years ago were were told that "The Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant, in Sweden, will be first to house a deep geological repository for its high-level radioactive waste (HLW)" "SKB, Sweden’s nuclear fuel and waste management company, decided on …
The Evening Mail excitedly tells us that "The best Cumbria has to offer will be showcased in Parliament (today) as leading businesses set out their stall. Cumbria Day – now in its third year – is hosted by the county's six MPs as they put their political differences aside for the good of the area. …
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Please Share – A Final Push on the Petition to Stop Fossil Fuel Extraction Near Nuclear
Dear Friends,
FINAL PUSH ON THE PETITION to Stop Fossil Fuel Extraction Near Nuclear Installations!
We now have over 1000 signatures on this petition and it would be fantastic to raise the roof on this before we hand the petition in with a letter to the Health and Safety Executive.
The letter will outline all the reasons why there should be a halt to the extraction of fossil fuel near nuclear installations such as Springfields in Preston which is near to the PNR frack site.
The plan for the first deep coal mine in the UK in 30 years would be just five miles from Sellafield.
This is madness and will impact on future generations as well as ours.
We have written to the HSE before but so far their response has been to ignore the letters. With your help and even more signatures on the petition we can make…
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The devastation awaiting the river Ehen and the tiny village of Beckermet in West Cumbria has been graphically demonstrated courtesy of an EDF drone over Hinkley Point C in Somerset. George Monbiot the Guardian's much hyped environmentalist has told Cumbria that the most dangerous thing we have to worry about it the sheep. He is …
The Whitehaven News have published an excellent letter by the founder of Greenpeace UK. Pete Wilkinson has written this letter in his role as Chairman of Together Against Sizewell. Government seems to be determined to pursue a nuclear power policy which will leave future generations with a nuclear waste radiation legacy at least ten times …
Dear Friends, Although this is a very big deal you would not think so from reading and listening to the mainstream media. There has been virtually no reporting in the local press and none at all in the national press on all the reasons why so many groups and organisations are opposed to the plan […] …
Nuclear – We are Standing at the Threshold of Too Late! It is up to us whether or not we allow our nuclear obsessed government to push us over that threshold
Standing on the Threshold of Too Late
Nuclear: There will soon come a time when it is too late
In Dr. Martin Luther King’s Nobel Prize Lecture, October of 1964, he raises the alarm over nuclear weapons and the constant threat of annihilation by nuclear weapons, as an “imminent cosmic elegy“. Ignoring the nuclear threat “does not alter the nature and risks of such war“, he warns. [1] In his speech at the Riverside Church, one year before his death, he further warns that there is such a thing as “too late“. [2]
Today we stand on the threshold of too late, with regard to nuclear reactors, as well as nuclear weapons.
Nuclear reactors and the related mining, processing and waste legally leak lethal radionuclides into the environment, all of the time, even without a major accident. Many of the most dangerous, like plutonium…
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PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE THE PETITION No to Nuclear Power We, the undersigned, call on the Government to: • Cancel all plans for new reactors, • Phase out all nuclear power production, • Commit to developing an energy system based on renewable energy. Major disasters at Windscale, Chernobyl and Fukushima show the dangers associated with …
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