Co-Founder of Green and Blacks Calls Out Small Modular Reactors: They Would Produce 30 Times As Much Nuclear Waste

While Nuclear Luvvies and Lords in Cumbria Big Up Small Modular Reactors being touted by Rolls Royce, science is stacked against them. IF science is genuinely allied to ethics and a living planet then Small Modular Reactors (or any nuclear fuelled plan ) should not even be on the table. Craig Sams the co-founder of …

Tim Farron Strongly Opposes New Nuclear- Good! But …. Action against this New Nuclear Madness is needed

Lakeland Nuclear Crime Scene - "Moorside" would be paid for by You! Last week Tim Farron MP sent the following reply to Radiation Free Lakeland when we urged him to vote NO to the public paying for new nuclear build in the Nuclear Financing Bill yesterday. Our MP's opposition to new nuclear is heartening. But …

Tim Farron MP: Essential Nuclear Construction of WMD? No it isn’t!

Dear Tim, Thank you for your reply to our concerns. We urge you to drop the false and dangerous label of "essential construction" for Trident and Hinkley Point C. We agree with your call for non essential work to cease to halt the spread of COVID19. This is however meaningless if the Government's own mega …

Tomorrow in Workington – STOP NEW NUCLEAR SMRs

If you cannot join us tomorrow then please do sign and share the petition - Cumbria County Council is going to be asked to declare a Climate Emergency - unless New Nuclear is Ruled Out of the Council's Climate Emergency Plans the planet will burn far hotter, far quicker. PETITION CUMBRIA COUNTY COUNCIL We will …

New Nuclear in Cumbria to “Save the Climate”? NO!

To: Cumbria County Council New Nuclear in Cumbria to "Save the Climate"? NO! NEW PETITION TO CUMBRIA COUNTY COUNCIL - PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE Include a No New Nuclear Clause in your Climate Emergency planning. There is a critical need to Rule out New Nuclear as part of Climate Emergency planning. New Nuclear including so called …

The Lake District National Park’s Credibility Undermined by Nuclear Promotion?

Tomorrow, Tuesday 12th February, 10am at the Lake District National Park Authority Headquarters a question will be posed to the Park Strategy and Vision Committee by Marianne Birkby of Radiation Free Lakeland. "The Lake District National Park will be 70 years old in a couple of years.   The National Park boundary  stopping short of …

Lake District National Park Authority Member DEMANDS that the Government Pay for Moorside. OUR PETITION SAYS STUFF THAT! (well something like that)

Image:  taken today in Ackenthwaite.  This is the south side of Cumbria and like the village of Beckermet (Moorside) on the west side, is not in the Lake District (The Lake District National Park is an artificial construct about the same age as the nuclear industry!) The mountains between give the South Lakes a false …

Report from Fukushima – Talk in Keswick

A visitor from Japan will be in Keswick tomorrow (Saturday 24th) to give a "Report from Fukushima."   This is more relevant than ever to our region with Cumbria County Council leaders and MPs clamouring like a modern day ship of fools for dangerous new nuclear build on green fields next to Sellafield.  With cracked and …

URGENT Please Support Kirkby Moor Windfarm

I have just written this on behalf of Radiation Free Lakeland - please send your own letter of support for keeping Kirkby Moor Windfarm There is also a Petition Please do use the letter below for ideas.... To The Planning Inspectorate, Via Email to: leanne.palmer@pins.gsi.gov.uk Kirkby Moor Wind Farm Renewal, Appeal reference number: APP/M0933 Dear …

GMB want Government to Bail Out Moorside – the Public Must Pay For Nukiller!

Celebrations that Moorside is to be scrapped are on hold. At least until we can be sure that our nuclear obsessed Government are not going to publicly fund this as has happened with ALL other nuclear new build before.  The GMB union is agitating.. This is the GMB's "Response To Moorside Crisis Wednesday, August 1, …