Fracking – Causes Earthquakes and Deep Boreholes (handy for nuclear wastes?) . Say No!

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 …

Ellesmere Port : Uranium Hexafluoride and Fracking Side by Side? What Could Go Wrong?

    PRESS NOTICE Radiation Free Lakeland and Close Capenhurst have successfully placed a late Comment before the Ellesmere Port Igas Inquiry. Uranium Hexafluoride and Fracking Side by Side?  What Could Go Wrong? Nuclear safety group Radiation Free Lakeland says - "alongside the group, Close Capenhurst, we have been working on a report which exposes …

Fracking: Nuclear Fools

It has taken some doing but at last a national media outlet has exposed the close proximity of fracking operations on the Fylde to the UKs nuclear fuel site, 'Springfields'. Good on Private Eye for breaking the silence. Check out page 37 of Private Eye 16th Nov ... here is a small extract of the …

Fylde Fracking Near Nuclear Fuel Site – “No Problem” says Government

A supporter of Radiation Free Lakeland has been doing excellent work in a series of letters to the Rt Hon Claire Perry MP in relation to fracking in Lancashire near the Springfields Nuclear Fuel site. The reply is an essay in nonchalance which is breathtaking in the wake of the supposed precautionary principle lessons learnt …

“Its Behind You” Happy Halloween

I dreamt this cartoon the other night - and it has played on my mind since so here it is.  Not anywhere near as good as in the dream! Its a thing with science fiction and halloween stories that the scarier and the more utterly unbelievable the monster is the less likely it is to …

Nukiller Sacred Cow: Springfields Nuclear Fuels is a Seismic “High Hazard” Installation on the Fylde.

On the 19th October there was a much publicised seismic event on the Fylde measuring a magnitude of 0.3ML. The previous day's micro-seismic events  in the area at the end of the horizontal shale gas well currently being fracked by Cuadrilla. measured -0.2, -0.8 and -0.3 magnitude. What was NOT publicised in ANY of the press, …

Lancashire School Children Put at Risk : Trips to see Enriched Uranium being turned into Nuclear Fuel, and all In the middle of the UKs new Fracking Gasfield.

Images - School buses on visit inside the Springfields Nuclear Fuel site - Enriched Uranium entering the site. The following letter has been sent to the interim Chief Executive Officer of Lancashire County Council from a supporter of Radiation Free Lakeland. The continued school trips to the Springfields Nuclear Fuel site slap bang in the …

Remembering Windscale, Outside the Gates where #NuclearMudness is made

  Today folk from Radiation Free Lakeland and Close Capenhurst remembered the 61st anniversary of the Windscale Fire. During 10–11th October, 1957 A serious fire developed in the core of a nuclear reactor at Windscale Works, Sellafield, northwest England, which led to the release of significant quantities of radioactive material into the environment over a …

What?! No Evacuation Plan?

Bravo to anti-fracking campaigners for getting an interim injunction on fracking at PNR on safety and the lack of evacuation plans. We have sent a letter to Springfields, the UKs nuclear fuel manufacturing plant as the safety concerns overlap and are magnified with these two industries in such close proximity. Dear Springfields Fuels, Westinghouse, We …

Does anti-nuclear protest not count now as environmental protest?

Duncan Ball - Sentenced to 2 years for protesting against Sellafield. We stand in condemnation of the jail sentences handed out to the anti-fracking activists and believe they should be awarded medals instead of jail sentences.  It was widely reported that these were the first jail sentences to be handed out in decades for environmental …