This is why there should be no new nuclear wastes arriving at Sellafield, no new so called Small Modular Reactors on this floodplain ....and no new coal mine deep under the Irish Sea. Cumbria (and the fallout is planetary) is ALREADY under intolerable risks. Today's flood warnings ...fingers crossed
NEW NUCLEAR: PROTECTING THE PLANET OR TURNING CLIMATE EMERGENCY INTO A DOUBLE WHAMMY? Across the world climate activists are uniting to protect the planet from continuing fossil fuel use. There is much talk of a “green industrial revolution” and a “Green New Deal.” This sounds good. Who doesn’t want a green industrial revolution and …
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Many thanks to the German Newspaper Taz, so far the ONLY National/ International press to pick up on the reason why nuclear safety campaigners have been vehemently opposing the plan for Coal off the West Coast of Cumbria....Today nuclear safety campaigners Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole (a Radiation Free Lakeland campaign) were joined by …
Dear Friends, This Monday Prince Charles will be visiting the Lake District to unveil a plaque to the Lake District World Heritage Site. CALL OUT - MEET OUTSIDE KESWICK THEATRE BY THE LAKE TO JOIN US in leafleting and asking the question: who will protect us from the terrible Nuclear Heritage that we can see …
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Article in German National Press - Taz by Daniel Zylbersztajn 21. 4. 17 (translation not perfect - with help of google and others!) Nuclear power in North West England In the shadow of Radiation In the home country of the British nuclear industry doubts about nuclear power are unpopular. Nuclear power opponents still do not …
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It was World Cancer Day yesterday. Supporters of a Radiation Free Lakeland went along to Workington to collect signatures on a letter to the director of Public Health in Cumbria. The letter asked Colin Cox for a reply to the hundreds of letters already written questioning the government's assertion that the influx of construction workers …
Recent Headlines Jeremy Corbyn Backs Moorside Nuclear Plant Planned For Copeland Key issue for by-election Paul Waugh Executive Editor, Politics, HuffingtonPost UK Danny Lawson/PA Wire Copeland Labour hopeful Gillian Troughton supports the nuclear industry "No ifs, no buts" Jeremy Corbyn has finally given his personal backing to a new nuclear power plant in Cumbria …
Recently I was asked for maps of the Moorside site - here a satellite map indicates the overall view. From Sellafield the Moorside site would stretch to Beckermet , Braystones and Calderbridge and include the flood plain of the River Ehen. The near proximity to the jewel in the crown of the Lake District- Wastwater …
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Review of the year – Radiation Free Lakeland. An observation…..while activist and NGO attention has been (deliberately?) ratcheted up and focussed on fracking the nuclear industry has been lining up its myriad ducks from the South of England to Wales to Cumbria with a view to poisoning our water, land, sea and our DNA.. People …
Radiation Free Lakeland are no lovers of the BBC's recent coverage of nuclear issues...so we were extremely guarded when approached by Panorama. Following reassurance that this would be an "expose" we have contributed to the programme with documents leaked to us by brave whistleblowers. We hope against hope that the programme will do what it …
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