Acid Mine Drainage Still Pouring into “Jewel in Crown” Lake District Harbour. 15 Months On Local MP (former Under Secretary of State for Environment) Finally Notices and Calls in Sellafield/Great British Nuclear Dump For Advice – They Want to Dig Biggest Mine Ever Off Lake District Coast.

Whitehaven on Monday March 11th The authorities have failed to find the route or routes of the pollution or carry out routine and comprehensive testing and have to date (after 15 months of pollution) not even tested the solids/silt within the water.   Thanks to you  we now have funds to take a look into …

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Radiation Free Lakeland Letter – East Riding Councillors Urged to Withdraw from GDF process

Dear Councillor of East Riding, At your full meeting on 21st February 2024 I believe a motion is being put forward for withdrawal from the expression of interest  by East Riding Council’s inward investment arm to start a "conversation" with residents about building a geological waste disposal facility for high level nuclear wastes. RADIATION FREE LAKELAND …

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Talk: Deep Sub-Sea Mining- Coal and Nuclear Hand in 4IR Glove?

MONDAY 22nd JANUARY 2024 – Open 7 PM for FREE refreshments – 7:30 PM startA TALK AT NEW HORIZONS, St ANNES, Lancashire. As New Horizons’ regulars know, although our presentations are informative and entertaining, quite a few are also extremely controversial. And that’s deliberate. We like to engage speakers who can stir the “grey matter” …

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A Look at LAND’s Achievements Over 2023

New Years Greetings to all supporters and friends of Lakes Against Nuclear Dump - a Radiation Free Lakeland campaign. 2024 will bring New Challenges but its good to look at achievements and here are just a few of the highlights from last year. Onwards and Upwards! Lakes Against Nuclear Dump is run entirely voluntarily - …

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Letter of Heartfelt Thanks Sent to Germany’s Environment Minister on Nuclear Shut Down

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 …

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“Total Admiration and Support for Kimba Nuclear Dump Fight in Australia”

image below from: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-05/barngarla-women-protest-against-nuclear-waste-at-kimba/102053982 Total admiration and support’ for Kimba fight Four British anti-nucleargroups have written to anAboriginal campaign groupto express their ‘totaladmiration and support’ insolidarity with their struggleagainst a FederalGovernment plan to dumpnuclear waste on theirTraditional Land in SouthAustralia. They have alsostrongly objected to the planin a joint response to agovernment consultation. The NFLA, …

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A River Runs Through It

The following photo and comments were posted recently on the public facebook group Old West Cumbria The photo is from long before the River Calder was straightened and canalised (1970s?) to make more space for new ponds of radioactive waste and also to run as fast as possible through the site (now called Sellafield) taking …

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MP for Workington is Fizzing with Enthusiasm for Nuclear Waste

Mark Jenkinson MP's facebook page today is fizzing with enthusiasm for nuclear. The MP for Workington clearly has no concern for the transports of highly active radioactive wastes already trundling through Workington every week. The hype over the Government's "greenlighting" of Sizewell C is premature as a well supported campaign in Suffolk is vigorously challenging …

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Net Zero Review “Nuclear is a No-Regrets Option” Breathtaking and Dangerous Hubris!

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 …

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Cocooning the past. Plutonium reactor in Eastern Washington encased in steel to protect the river — nuclear-news

Thanks to Nuclear-News.net for this heads up on the fact that all nuclear power plants become nuclear waste requiring "cocooning" and separation from the biosphere into eternity The K-East nuclear reactors stands stripped bare and decommissioned near the banks of the Columbia River at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Hanford’s “sister reactors”, the K-East and the …

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