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 …
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 …
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 …
Continue reading Fylde Fracking Near Nuclear Fuel Site – “No Problem” says Government
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Continue reading Remembering Windscale, Outside the Gates where #NuclearMudness is made
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 …
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 …
Continue reading Does anti-nuclear protest not count now as environmental protest?
Many thanks to New Horizons for inviting Radiation Free Lakeland tomorrow evening. Doors Open at 7.30 for 8.00pm start - free refreshments For ten years now Radiation Free Lakeland have been flagging up the nuclear industry's eyewatering use of our most precious resource, freshwater. For ten years the main stream media have shied away from …
