Chilly today - photo taken this morning in South Lakeland by Marianne BIrkby Here is an observation today from David Autumns of the Radiation Free Lakeland facebook group Wind Output "with barely a breeze today" Today's Nuclear Output Images from Gridwatch https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/?fbclid=IwAR3w4cGWaPRg62xgMXDhVRq8FKlYzLxPiw9OKL4C9qGFrQHU_i66bRJNJkU "Just Sizewell B and 1/2 of Heysham2 and 1/2 of Torness running at …
A letter of thanks has been sent this weekend from Radiation Free Lakeland to Germany's Environment Minister Steffi Lemke. Dear Steffi Lemke, Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment, Germany We are a volunteer nuclear safety group in Cumbria, UK and we are writing to thank you for making Germany and Europe safer by closing down Germany’s nuclear power …
Chris Skidmore MP Chair of the Net Zero Review ( net zero CO2) has published his Review and it is breathtaking in its pro-nuclear hubris. This fetid climate of fizzing enthusiasm for nuclear power (linked to nuclear weapons) has been made possible by the abdication of any meaningful opposition from leading NGOs and by the …
Continue reading Net Zero Review “Nuclear is a No-Regrets Option” Breathtaking and Dangerous Hubris!
The following article was published in Der Spiegel this week and relates to Greta Thunberg's advocacy of keeping Germany's dangerous old nuclear reactors going. Germany's reactors produce less than 12% (more like 6%) of the country's electricity. Incredibly for one almost sainted for her intelligence Greta took the interviewers prompt that nuclear should be kept …
A supporter of Radiation Free Lakeland has pointed out that the news that there is too much electricity going into the grid: "shows the fallacy of "base load". What it really means in inflexible. Yet again we are seeing the economics of nuclear fail, as it is very expensive so needs a guaranteed price per …
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 …
A Message from Kick Nuclear to the Nuclear Industry Forum 2015. We are here this morning to again advise you of the error of your ways. Civilian nuclear power was only ever a fig leaf for nuclear bomb making, and civilian nuclear power is no longer either cheap, needed or acceptable. Don't just take our …
Windermere's Free Paper, Windermere Now has published an anonymous article (pg 8) promoting Moorside and Geological Dumping. Radiation Free Lakeland are grossly misrepresented as being "Not in My Back Yard" when what we have been consistently saying is NOT IN ANYONE'S BACK YARD. What would the Lakeland men and women of old think of …
Continue reading “Woolly Thinker” anonymous article in Windermere Now
As a former long time activist with Friends of the Earth this is horrifying. Simon Bullock, Friends of the Earth's senior campaigner on Climate Change and Energy has outlined the top ten priorities for Amber Rudd, the new head of the Department of Energy and Climate Change. DECC was formed in 2008 amidst great hope for a …
Continue reading Friends of the Earth UK’s Top Ten Priorities- No 1: Keep Schtum about Nuclear
Demonstration this Saturday 16th May from 11am outside Whitehaven Civic Hall STOP MOORSIDE London based group Kick Nuclear have sent a message of support for the Stop Moorside demonstration: The group Kick Nuclear wish to express their support for Radiation Free Lakeland in their objections to plans for building a new nuclear power station at Moorside. …
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