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 …
Continue reading The Lake District National Park’s Credibility Undermined by Nuclear Promotion?
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
Continue reading GMB want Government to Bail Out Moorside – the Public Must Pay For Nukiller!
This Friday, June 8th is World Oceans Day. Here is a little film about two of the BIG Threats to the Lake District Coast and the Irish Sea. https://youtu.be/3Wvm3yisLwc The Lake District's Coast is under extreme threat. There is a plan for new nuclear and new coal. Both are being touted as a "good thing." …
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Once upon a time there was a babe in the deep dark forest of the Old Labour woods who stepped out into the upland sunshine of New Labour. The Mad King Blair's "little ray of sunshine" later fell into disgrace for supping too eagerly of the gravy train and the fall was made so much …
Continue reading ‘Blair Babe’ Hazel Blears on New Nuclear Gravy Train
Today the Prince of Wales unveiled a plaque in Keswick to celebrate the Lake District being awarded World Heritage Site status. Campaigners from Radiation Free Lakeland were at the event, dressed in a barrel of nuclear waste, as Prince Charles arrived. Radiation Free Lakeland have said: "World Heritage Site status for the Lake District is …
John Woodcock MP has announced that he wants the public to pay for a new cancer factory in Cumbria. The money to pay for new reactors on greenfields (being called Moorside) near Sellafield 'should come out of the public purse' he says. As the situation stands with China and South Korea in the running for …
PODIUM The Westmorland Gazette’s Podium is often given over to the fans of nuclear energy. This one in particular was a masterpiece and neatly encapsulates in one article all the deceitful pro-nuclear ‘renaissance’ propaganda that we have been treated to over the last decade or more. Dr Kent Brooks has appeared in the Westmorland Gazette …
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