The Issue Briefing below is courtesy of Close Capenhurst Campaign Illustrated with a page from the ongoing comic book "Wastwater Chronicles' Issue Briefings – Barrow & Rising Tides While much of our campaigning work concentrates upon a couple of plants, and nukiller waste, we should never forget the wider issues which we all face. Thus …
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Dear Friends here is our opposition to the plan for exploratory fracking near Formby. Joe Boyd has written an excellent opposition which we endorse. There are two points to our opposition - 1. Fracking causes earthquakes and the NW has a plethora of High Hazard nuclear installations. 2. the latest position statement of the Committee …
A brand new space at Solfest, dedicated to all the ways that we can support each other and our planet, The "WHOSE PLANET...is it anyway?" tent runs over the festival weekend showcasing the many and varied ways we can we nurture, protect and reclaim our planet and each other. Workshops and discussions from bees to …
The plans for Moorside are unravelling but we have to make sure. The following letter has been sent to Greg Clark MP, Please do use this as a template to urge him to scrap all new nuclear build. It is beyond time. Email: enquiries@beis.gov.uk To the Rt Hon Greg Clark MP Secretary of State Department …
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Fantastic News that Sweden has rejected the plan in their country for a geological nuclear dump. Ten years ago were were told that "The Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant, in Sweden, will be first to house a deep geological repository for its high-level radioactive waste (HLW)" "SKB, Sweden’s nuclear fuel and waste management company, decided on …
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 …
Sellafield boss awarded OBE for services to the nuclear industry "An inspirational role model at Sellafield has been awarded an OBE for services to the nuclear industry". The OBE is for "budging radioactive sludge" from one place to another and repacking, and reclassifying highly radioactive wastes while the industry and our nuclear headed government is …
The Lancaster Guardian had a gem of an article entitled "Thinking About the Energy Fuelling the Food We Eat" (12/1/17) The hidden ingredient . . . . However much care we take with the ingredients for our favourite dishes – there is one ingredient we probably don’t think about very much – and that’s the power …
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Letter in last week's Whitehaven News and this week's Westmorland Gazette IS SELLAFIELD PREPARED? Last Saturday while I was out for a walk on Latter Rig, there was a plume of thick black smoke curling round the Duddon Estuary from the west coast. The first stomache plummeting thought was 'something's happened at Sellafield'. The …
Press from France (translation ours) on the convoy of highly radioactive waste from Sellafield making its way across Europe. * A castor nuclear waste train crosses the Lorraine afternoon * by Jean-Christophe Dupuis-Rémond according to various sources, a convoy of Swiss waste passes through the France Wednesday, September 16, 2015 to reach Basel (Switzerland). This …
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