Beatrix Potter's Evil Master Plan: Trash Woodlands, Replace with "woolly maggots" So says George Monbiot. Nuclear enthusiast George Monbiot has said of the Lakeland fells: "The forests that once covered them have been reduced by the white plague to bare rock and bowling green...the sheep wiped the hills clean." Sounds persuasive. But is it credible? …
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Excellent write up from The 'call in' meeting. These handwritten notes have been made by Fiona of 3 Weeks to Save the Lakes http://www.itv.com/news/border/story/2013-02-19/nuclear-waste-repository/ Please note- this is all paraphrased not quotes and is based on notes taken at the time- I don't do shorthand, I couldn't get every point. Intro: 3 councillors had made …
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Correspondence between Cumbria Tourism and Radiation Free Lakeland All our futures including the Norwegians and the Irish depend on the Sellafield wastes being looked after safely. Key to this is Cumbria Tourism stepping up to the mark and saying No to the dump. For Cumbria's sake do it! From: "Ian Stephens" Subject: RE: Cumbria Tourism …
Radiation Free Lakeland have been passed a letter addressed to Santa from HM Government. The letter has been leaked by brave whistleblower, Vixen the Reindeer. Dear Santa, We have been working VERY hard again this year to convince Cumbrians that 'Managing Radioactive Waste Safely' means mining a MEGA hole to dump nuclear waste in. Please …
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http://www.blurb.co.uk/books/3822161 A graphic novel has been sent to the Chair of the Lake District National Park. The third in the series about an unassuming Cumbrian couple trying to make sense of the plan to dump high level nuclear wastes under their Lakeland home. Dear Bill, A Christmas Gift to Cumbria…. The letter to DECC’s Baroness …
Following criticism by Radiation Free Lakeland and others of the National Park's complicity in the push for geological dumping of nuclear wastes under Cumbria the National Park has sent a letter to DECC. This is a purely tactical move to try to save face while not actually changing their position. The chair of the Authority, …
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Why are the movers and shakers in Cumbria still faffing about trying to please government by going along with this insane plan for a nuclear dump ? Letter below to West Cumbria Tourism Dear West Cumbria Tourism, As a wildlife artist I agree wholeheartedly with your marketing team that the Western Lake District is a …
The most important meeting EVER of all 84 members of Cumbria County Council took place yesterday without fanfare. Radiation Free Lakeland (all ordinary people) unfurled a banner and staged a demo before the meeting - they weren't joined by Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, lovers of Lakeland: Melvyn Brag, Lord Clark and Eric Robson or …
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The following correspondence reveals an endearingly honest lack of awareness on the part of the leader of Cumbria County Council. Cumbria is being hoodwinked and no amount of conjuring up a "Brand Protection Strategy" costing £millions will protect the Cumbria "brand" Email from Cumbria County Council Leader Eddie Martin to Radiation Free Lakeland Subject: RE: …
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RADIATION FREE LAKELAND 