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Month: February 2023
New Atomic Hell Arrives at Hinkley While The Nuclear Industry Calls Itself Clean and Folk are Directed to Campaign Elsewhere.
Article from The Construction Index Hinkley Point C’s first reactor arrives on site [– with video] The first new nuclear reactor for a British power station for more than 30 years has arrived in Somerset. With the cranes of Hinkley Point C in the background, the 500-tonne load completes the last few miles of its …
Shhhh – don’t mention the Russian connection. We all hate Russia – Don’t we?
New Director of UK Govnt approved West Cumbria Mining, Owen Hegarty bankrolled by Russian Govnt to tune of £30M for his Tigers Realm Coal in Russian Far East. #KeepCumbrianCoalintheHole
Russian Government has a large slice of West Cumbria Mining New Director’s Coal Pie.
Our government are ignoring calls for diplomatic negotiations with Russia to take precedent over increasingly dangerous (and lucrative) war games while endorsing developments with ties to the Russian government. Makes no sense at all unless viewed through the business as usual at any cost lens.
Just a week after government approved the first deep coal mine in over 30 years in the UK, a new director was appointed to West Cumbria Mining.
Owen Hegarty appointed to West Cumbria Mining on 16th December 2022 is no ordinary Director. He is founder and Executive Chairman ofEMR Capital, a private equity company who put up the £Millions to get West Cumbria Mining started.
In December 2020 the headline in Financial Review boldly asserted “There’s never been a better time to mine coal in Siberia” “Mining industry veteran…
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A River Runs Through It
The following photo and comments were posted recently on the public facebook group Old West Cumbria The photo is from long before the River Calder was straightened and canalised (1970s?) to make more space for new ponds of radioactive waste and also to run as fast as possible through the site (now called Sellafield) taking …
Missing in Transit: Caesium-138 in Australia – compare and contrast with nonchalance over routine poisoning of Cumbria with cocktail of radioactive crapola.
Many thanks to Nuclear Free Local Authorities for this - the comparison with the media buzz around the Caesium-138 in Australia and the nonchalance over routine poisoning of Cumbria is startling .... Press Release from Nuclear Free Local Authorities on the Caesium-138 incident in Australia........ NFLAs want to discover lessons from Western Australia Caesium-138 incident …
The Cavalry is Here
The facebook group Pit Crack West Cumbria is featuring poems promoting West Cumbria Mining (at any cost it seems) and ridiculing Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole and ‘Green Marianne’ hey ho.
Any way here is a little poem in reply to Pit Crack Cumbria I’ve just tried to post on the facebook group but it was blocked. Here it is.
Pit Cracked Cumbria
The Cavalry’s Here
Its West Cumbria Mining
Currently Focussed on Coal
But thats Just a Blinding
The Big Money’s on Nuclear
The Hole would be Deep
Deeper than Scafell is high
n’ Fifteen Miles Square Peeps
with Artificial Intelligence
Giant Moles Underground
Creep Creep Creep
Who Cares if the Water’s Acid Orange
In the Harbour -“Give us New Coal”
Is the Nostalgic Clamour.
Dripping with Memories of Days
Long Ago Where the Axe and the Blast
Will No Longer Go. Now it is Massive
Tunnel Boring…
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Cumbrian Campaigner Invited to Speak at International Webinar on Nuclear Waste Burial Schemes.
Register here - February 22nd 5 pm (UK time) PRESS NOTICE Cumbrian Campaigner Invited to Speak at International Webinar on Nuclear Waste Burial Schemes. Radiation Free Lakeland's founder, Marianne Birkby has been invited to speak at an International Webinar. Speakers from the US, Sweden and the UK will provide updates from other countries exploring or pursuing deep …
Coal Authority and others are being led by Mayor of Copeland in polluted harbour investigations.
Gotham City Mayor eat your heart out. Mayor of Copeland Mike Starkie is “personally leading investigations” into cause of Whitehaven Harbour pollution #KeepCumbrianCoalintheHole
We have received a letter via Tim Farron MP which reveals the startling fact that the investigations into the reasons behind the pollution in Whitehaven Harbour “is being led personally by Mike Starkie, the Mayor of Copeland.” The Mayor of Copeland has been the most aggressive supporter of West Cumbria Mining from the off, telling people including Tim Farron MP to butt out : “In West Cumbria we are fed up with people from outside the area telling us what is best for us. The mine project is potentially transformational and will significantly improve lives and prospects of the community in West Cumbria.” Mayor Mike Starkie.
It is more than likely that the Mayor in his role “personally leading investigations” would divert investigations away from WCM’s exploration boreholes as a catalyst for the release of historic mine water previously held in place.
We have sent a further letter to…
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Mine Water Pollution in Whitehaven Harbour is Red Flag for New Coal Mine.
Mine Water Pollution in Whitehaven Harbour is Red Flag for New Coal Mine.
Campaigners have sent a letter (10.2.23) to the Coal Authority via Cumbrian MP Tim Farron urging the Coal Authority not to renew West Cumbria Mining’s conditional licence for onshore mining which expired in October 2022.
Pollution
Radiation Free Lakeland have opposed the coal mine since 2017 on a wide range of pollution issues including “geological and hydrological damage to an already vulnerable area in close proximity to the UKs nuclear waste stockpile at Sellafield”.
Approval of Coal Mine – Whitehaven Harbour Turns Red
Secretary of State, Michael Gove approved West Cumbria Mining’s coal mine plan on 7th December, around the same time red mine water poured into Queens Dock, Whitehaven Harbour. The authorities have not yet found the cause and mine water continues to flow into the harbour and on into the Irish Sea and Solway Firth.
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GDF Villains! Counter the Propaganda of “GDF’s Heroes” Make Your Own 8 Page Colouring Book from One Sheet of Paper.
Counter the Propaganda of "GDF's Heroes" Make Your Own 8 Page Colouring Book from One Sheet of Paper. Download the A4 sheet below and follow the instructions to make your very own GDF Villains colouring book - make lots to hand out and spread the word. Download this A4 page of "GDF Villains" to print …
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