NuGen Don’t Let the Truth Get in the Way of a Good Story

The following article published in The Ecologist follows Radiation Free Lakeland's exposure of NuGen's Lie that Moorside would produce "7% of the UKs energy".  We now wait for double page adverts in every Cumbrian newspaper with NuGen's apology for bigging up nuclear energy. Lies, damned lies, and energy statistics - why nuclear is so much less than it …

MPs Dumping Democracy – “Please Do Everything In Your Power to Stop This Abuse Of Power”

Dear Tim, Thank you for your reply.  As I understand it by making nuclear waste disposal a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project the local councils will have the same kind of input as you have had to the Committee meeting about this ie None. Unless, that is, you have been selected. In the case of the …

Fourth Anniversary of Fukushima…”an unnatural disaster that must never be repeated”

Fukushima: an unnatural disaster that must never be repeated by Arnie Gundersen in The Ecologist 11th March 2015 The Fukushima catastrophe four years ago today was no natural disaster, writes Arnie Gunderson. Operator TEPCO and nuclear regulators were well aware of the danger of tsunamis - but put money before safety. Nuclear power remains the …

Leaked Sellafield photos reveal “massive radioactive release” threat

Radiation Free Lakeland have been given permission to publish in full the article in The Ecologist by Oliver Tickell and the leaked photographs exposing Sellafield's neglect of decades of nuclear wastes.  For the nuclear industry and government to be colluding to build new nuclear next to this radioactive ticking time bomb is tantamount to state terrorism. …

£100 released to Radiation Monitoring in Cumbria

    On 26th April  The Ecologist magazine accurately reported on the launch of a new website Arrest Monbiot  "that calls for the arrest of writer George Monbiot for 'Nuclear Crimes against Humanity and the Environment'.... Monbiot was selected for this dubious honour as a result of his high profile but paradoxical conversion to the virtues …