This is the first page of the new comic book “The Pit and the Polar Bear” – latest in the Wastwater Chronicles series of books.
300 Million years ago – carboniferous forest, near the Equator…
….now under the Irish Sea – COAL
This is the first page of the new comic book “The Pit and the Polar Bear” – latest in the Wastwater Chronicles series of books.
300 Million years ago – carboniferous forest, near the Equator…
….now under the Irish Sea – COAL
PLEASE WRITE YOUR OWN MESSAGE TO EDF and The Office for Nuclear Regulation - SHUT DOWN HUNTERSTON B . Use this excellent letter by David Autumns below as inspiration for your letter objecting to the diabolic restart of this cracked reactor in Scotland. Dear EDF ONR Well played!!Congratulations on your PR Campaign surrounding the "Early …
Continue reading SHUT HUNTERSTON B NOW – PR CRAPOLA on CRACKED NUCLEAR REACTORS DOESN’T CUT IT.
Dear Friends,
Big apologies as this will read like blowing my own toy trumpet – but recent uncorrected press reports re the legal challenge have been misleading …
MANY THANKS to all who have supported the Legal Challenge from myself Marianne Bennett (aka Birkby) against Cumbria County Council’s decision to approve West Cumbria Mining’s original planning application.
BACKGROUND
My decision to take on the legal challenge was not made easily. As a known anti-nuclear campaigner and founder of the small, volunteer anti-nuclear group Radiation Free Lakeland, I have no climate activist following (despite nuclear being the ultimate block on a healthy future). Our focus at Radiation Free Lakeland is nuclear safety. Namely to stop new nuclear build, the dumping and dispersal of nuclear wastes and the biggie – the proposed Geological Disposal of Nuclear Wastes. I took the Legal case on with the extraordinary help of top lawyers Leigh Day…
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A Poster from the (previous) Stop Moorside campaign by Radiation Free Lakeland PRESS NOTICE A Heartfelt Letter of Thanks from Cumbrian Nuclear Safety Campaigners, Radiation Free Lakeland, has been sent to the Leader Of Colchester Council following unanimous approval of a motion, put forward by council leader Mark Cory. The motion said: “This council objects …
Well done to Maggie Mason and Henry Adams of South Lakeland Action on Climate Change and XR South Lakes for organising the protest in Kendal yesterday on the day the Council was set to decide the amended planning application.
The Truth is that HUGE Thanks are due to Leigh Day whose amazing legal work on behalf of Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole has ensured this diabolic coal mine plan has gone back to the drawing board (West Cumbria Mining will deny this of course, saying the amendment has nothing to do with our the legal challenge – yeah right!)
The work that Leigh Day have done is to the £value, way in excess of the albeit generous donations to our CrowdJustice fundraiser. The actual value is immeasurable so ….
We…
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Letter in Whitehaven News August 12th 2020. https://www.whitehavennews.co.uk "when the Coal Mine plan comes before Cumbria County Council on the 20th August Copeland councillors on that committee should remember that the CEO of West Cumbria Mining is tasked with delivery of a GDF and that Egremont and the Irish Sea (and Ennerdale) are in the …
This is where the toxic mess of Sellafield starts. Uranium Mining with its pollution of water, land and radioactive legacy .
DEADLINE IS AUGUST 26, 2020.
The Dewey-Burdock uranium mining project in the southwestern Black Hills is trying to take a step forward. We have only a few weeks to generate and write comments on the latest effort to destroy the water and land in that area. This is the area that is under lawsuit by the Oglala Sioux Tribe, which is challenging the inadequate effort to protect cultural resources on the proposed mine site.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has issued a Plan of Operations (POO) for the BLM land that is involved in the proposed mining project. The POO, a place to comment, and the BLM’s press release can be found here — https://www.blm.gov/press-release/bureau-land-management-seeks-public-comments-uranium-project-plan-operations
Note that this project is being “fast tracked” under the new, weaker environmental laws.
Please comment now, if you can…
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So what was in the Officers Report and Recommendations that proved so divisive that this mere “amendment” to the planning application for the first deep coal mine in the UK has been kicked into the long grass – until at least October we are told. That could be good news – but it also means that West Cumbria Mining WITH ITS BOTTOM IN SUSSEX, ITS BRAIN IN SINGAPORE, ITS WALLET IN THE CAYMAN ISLANDS and ITS HEART IN THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY still has its clogs firmly embedded under the table in West Cumbria.
The extraordinary cancellation of the August 20th meeting at the last minute raises some questions.
One of the comments we have seen is that “It is a distinct possibility that the report was not to the liking of at least one but probably more influential Councillors on the Committee. It may have even recommended No but it could equally have invoked even more restrictive conditions that, if enforced, would have rendered the proposal uneconomic. I am refering to the definition of metallurgical coal in terms of characteristics and chemical content.”
Certainly that is something that Keep Cumbrian Coal have been flagging up – the fact that this coking coal mine’s whole premise was based on the “high quality coking coal for steel manufacture”. The amended planning application from the developers asks for a relaxation of that industry standard (ie it would produce duff coking coal) and…
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A reminder of what we were saying about the coal mine back in 2017. These concerns have been reinforced by the appointment of the CEO of West Cumbria Mining to the government body tasked with delivery of a Geological Disposal Facility. Nuclear waste may or not be earmarked for disposal in a coal mine (Low level nuclear waste was earmarked for the old coal mine at Keekle Head- we managed to stop that!) BUT what is clear is that there is no deep mining ANYWHERE else in the UK – and that a Yes vote from Cumbria County Council would embed the kind of deep mining technology needed to facilitate a Geological Disposal Facility – not only that but the CEO of West Cumbria Mining is actually tasked with facilitating a GDF. This coal mine (which is asking to be allowed to produce duff coking coal not quite up to industry standard) adds up to more than the sum of its parts.
Another unpublished letter to the national press on the first deep coal mine in the UK in 30 years. There is something fishy going on with this coal mine plan. There has been nowt in the national media (and virtually nowt in the local media) on what a bad idea it is.
DIVEST FROM COAL? – TELL THAT TO THE BLACK GUILLEMOTS
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Postcards from Cumbria ….
This juxtaposition of Britain’s Favourite View – Wastwater and Britian’s most scary view, the Sellafield Nuclear Waste plant is particularly poignant. Wastwater provides Sellafield with the R1 top quality water. The coolest freshest water in the Lake District. This cool water is absolutely necessary to take the heat off the worlds biggest and hottest concentration of nuclear wastes ( just a few miles from the plan to mine for coal deep under the Irish Sea).
Many Thanks to David Autumns for the stunning photographs (seen here in very low resolution)
RADIATION FREE LAKELAND 