CALL FOR HELP FROM CUMBRIA – CUMBRIA SAID NO! – ANYONE LISTENING?

Today at the Wave in Maryport - Cumbrians Said (and still say) NO! *MANY THANKS* to all those Cumbrians on the frontline who are strongly protesting at the government's latest plan. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (Energy and Climate Change? Ha! spends a big chunk of its budget on fossil fuel for Sellafield …

Pitching Woo – MONDAY 11th NOV -DECC and the Geological Dump

All Allerdale and Copeland Councillors have been invited by government to be wooed into a geological dump. Copeland have not taken up the offer, presumably this is because (the handful of councillors on the Executive) do not need any more woo pitching, they are already dewy eyed and ready to be shafted? Allerdale are being …

Geological Dumping – CONsultation Boycott

Geological Dumping - CONsultation Boycott by Radiation Free Lakeland Open Letter to All Parish Councils in Cumbria Dear Cumbrian Parish Clerk, Radiation Free Lakeland would be very grateful if you could let your members have sight of this letter You will have heard that the Department of Energy and Climate Change has brought out a …

Further correspondence with DECC jokers…

Once again DECC has refused to honour its commitment to rule Cumbria out following the No vote. .... meanwhile the wastes continue to arrive at Sellafield. The plutonium continues to stack up from dodgy reprocessing. All the while DECC is wined and dined by the nuclear industry looking to pick up government contracts in the …

DECC Jokers have not accepted Cumbria’s NO –

Radiation Free Lakeland have received a reply from the Department of Energy and Climate Change regarding geological dumping of high level nuclear waste. Their responses to our questions are not just evasive and disingenuous. The replies indicate that Cumbrians have not got through to these jokers in government that we are: a. Not willing b. …

Nuclear Dump Shepherds? Lake District National Park

Following criticism by Radiation Free Lakeland and others of the National Park's complicity in the push for geological dumping of nuclear wastes under Cumbria the National Park has sent a letter to DECC. This is a purely tactical move to try to save face while not actually changing their position. The chair of the Authority, …

LAKES NUKILLER DUMP SAFE says DECC

Published on Nov 1, 2012 by Artivistmb LIstening to Radio Cumbria at 4pm today I hear the news that Tim Farron MP has asked a Parliamentary Question on how safe a geological nuclear dump would be under Cumbria. Ed Davey Minister in charge of DECC says "IT WILL BE SAFE" Now we know where Cumbria stands...on the edge …

DECC’s nuclear agenda “may be putting the public at risk” say Quakers in Britain

Ed Davey, Secretary of State DECC 3 Whitehall Place London SW1A 2AW 17 October 2012 Dear Ed Davey, I am writing on behalf of Meeting for Sufferings, the standing consultative committee of Quakers in Britain, to express our deep unease over the proposed planning process for citing nuclear storage in Cumbria. We ask for your …

Whitehaven News – letter “Gentle Steps” to Geological Dump (DECC) ….

Letter Published in Whitehaven News - Friday 21st Oct Dear Editor The plan to build new reactors at what is already the most dangerous nuclear site in Europe and to find a 'solution' to the waste problem. has ratcheted up a gear following the findings of the Weightman report. For the plan for new build …