Letter published in the News and Star 23rd January 2022 News and Star - Letter OXFORDSHIRE is home to a government body lavishing millions of pounds on small villages and towns in Cumbria. These pretty villages on the Lakeland fringe, such as Beckermet and Gosforth, have been signed up to a “Community Partnership” for the …
Continue reading Why Hasn’t Oxfordshire Been Given the Opportunity to Store(Dump) Nuclear Waste
Last weeks letter in the Whitehaven News by Tim Knowles hits the nail on the head repeatedly. All the more remarkable given that Mr Knowles was the Chair of the West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely Partnership ( MRWS) as executive member for the environment at Cumbria County Council. Since that time MRWS has dropped …
Continue reading “Dump and Forget” Long Lived Wastes in the Land that Time Forgot….
From the Westmorland Gazette 1st July 2021 Dear Editor, Under the new and unjust rules of the ongoing nuclear dump game, anyone anywhere can volunteer a place for an above and below ground Geological Disposal Facility for heat generating nuclear wastes. The area of Ghyll Scaur quarry was put forward by Parish Councillor of Bootle, …
Continue reading Letter from Lakes Against Nuclear Dump Published in Local Press
There is a letter in yesterday's Whitehaven News from a Copeland Borough Council councillor which asks the Question: "I WONDER how many people would continue to support the proposed coal mine if it turned out that the main reason for such a venture was to create a Geological Disposal Facility for high level nuclear waste? …
The Sun - the only Fusion Reactor that Works, is Free and Far Enough Away! "Moorside Clean Energy Hub selected as bidding location for nuclear fusion" What?? Clean Energy Hub ? - language is being genetically modified to accommodate the dystopian dreams of our "leaders' The local News and Star and other press have reported …
https://www.whitehavennews.co.uk/news/18843620.copeland-nuclear-storage-facility-create-thousands-jobs/ Copeland is of Old Norse origin, so called from the Old Norse "kaupland" meaning "bought land" under the old feudal system. The old feudal system is alive and well in Cumbria. The feudal masters being the nuclear industry who expect their pound of flesh from money stolen from the public purse and filtered through the nuclear prism "be grateful you serfs!" …
Continue reading The Old Feudal System is Alive and Well in Copeland.
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 …
FROM 2016 - STOP MOORSIDE - WE DID! Now we have to do it All Over Again - This Time Around They Are Calling it "CLEAN ENERGY" The Nuclear Industry is SUPER KEEN to promote itself as Clean Energy what with the Springfields Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing site (near the Preston New Road frack site) now …
https://youtu.be/HG7H05u5GQc Continuous Miner Machine - for making very big holes in the ground for example deep under the Irish Sea or Ennerdale or the Solway - Cumbria County Council have voted to bring this infrastructure to Cumbria when they said yes to West Cumbria Mining. Spot the difference? The Whitehaven News has reported …
Continue reading Copeland Council remove “Support” for deep geological dumping of nuclear waste
The following are a few of the excellent questions and thoughts posed by Neil from RaFL arising from the West Cumbria Site Stakeholder Meeting last week at Cleator Moor on 29th Nov. It takes a strong stomach to look at this stuff without the blinkers on. Those present for Sellafield -Dr Richard Hill, Prof. Paul …
RADIATION FREE LAKELAND 