The following was first published on Lakes Against Nuclear Dump - our dedicated campaign website. From Lakes Against Nuclear Dump to the Lake District National Park Authority. A letter of alarm regarding plans for an Intermediate Level Nuclear Waste Dump for the UK's Low Level Waste Repository at the village of Drigg. The UKs LLWR …
This is the first in a series of 4 minute movies on the Moorside plan for the biggest nuclear development in Europe. https://youtu.be/hHgRkczfLFI
PLEASE keep signing and sharing the petition which was ignored by Cumbria County Council. The petition is now over 2000 and rising. Cumbria's Open Door policy to ever more (and ever more dangerous) nuclear wastes arriving at Drigg must be challenged. TO: CUMBRIA COUNTY COUNCIL On 15th July 2016 in Kendal a small committee …
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On 15th July a small committee of Cumbrian Councillors in Kendal took the decision to stack nuclear waste ever higher in shipping containers on the shifting sands of the West Cumbrian coast at the quaint village of Drigg. No fuss, no fanfare, no comment, only one article in the local press which airbrushed out the …
Many Thanks to Residents Action on Fylde Fracking for their much welcomed support. It was such a relief to see people put their concerns into action to stand with us in resisting the nuclear juggernaught. RAFFs report is the only one to date in either the alternative or mainstream media to give voice to the …
Freedom of Information Request sent today 11 July 2016 Dear Environment Agency, In a Technical Review of 2015 for the Low Level Nuclear Waste Repository at Drigg you say that "there is evidence of a number of waste fires during operations of the trenches". We request sight of all the evidence of a number of …
Continue reading Fires in the Drigg Nuclear Waste Dump Trenches
PLease......write to CUmbria County Council before 15th July ....all the rotting shipping containers you see in this old picture are full of nuclear waste...now the industry wants to stack the containers higher and make more open concrete "vaults" of the type you can see in the image. Letter sent today to Cumbria County Council's Development …
"The time has come the Walrus said to speak of many things. Of nuclear waste in shipping crates and jellyfish with wings.." Dear Friends Just had a phone call from Cumbria County Council saying the Drigg Nuclear Dump decision will be taken in Kendal on 15th July at 9am. I will speak on behalf of …
Continue reading Lock the Gate on Drigg Nuclear Waste Site: 15th July in Kendal
note: Illustration can be found in Nirex:The Way Forward http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/rsh/The_Way_Forward_United_Kingdom_Nirex_Limited_1987_-_colour.pdf The Planning Application PL\1508\05 (4/15/9012): "The phased construction of additional vaults, higher stacking of containers..capping.. " was due to be heard "in early 2016." First we were told this would be in April, then May - now the decision has been put …
Continue reading Drigg Decision Delayed …..YET Again while the concrete is poured in the “Vaults”
RADIATION FREE LAKELAND ACTION NEWSLETTER 24th April 2016 Dear Friends ACTION – FOCUS ON PYLONS = PYLON THE PRESSURE FOR MOORSIDE? Many of you will have seen the article in the Guardian and other national papers on the “fury over Lake District Pylons” quite a few of us have commented on the Guardian …
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