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 …
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Film - "Fighting for Gemma" Today is International Women's Day "a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities." There are many such women in the anti-nuclear movement. …
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Radiation Free Lakeland: Review of 2017 “Scrap your pylon connection – Moorside would be an abomination.” Jean Ward of Kendal . We learnt in January of Jean Ward’s passing. In her late eighties she had a young spirit and campaigned fiercely but with great personal gentleness. The last time I spoke to she told me how …
An Update on the Rolling Resistance to Fracking at Preston New Road - just five miles from Springfields Nuclear Fuel Factory "Biofuelwatch, Coal Action Network and Reclaim the Power present an Energy Symposium Camp of New Hope, Preston New Road 11am – 6pm Sunday July 16th. Drop in for an hour or come for the …
This time last week a planning application was delivered to Cumbria County Council's Kendal offices for the first coal mine in England for 30 years. The following day there was universal condemnation of Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement. In contrast to the vehement condemnation of Trump's support for coal, there has been …
Financial Times Solar outshines nuclear as spring sun boosts UK output Renewable power generation tops 40% on Friday, overtaking gas. Solar power accounted for almost a quarter of electricity generated in the UK at lunchtime on Friday — a record that exceeded the combined output of the country’s eight nuclear power stations. An almost cloudless …
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Report from DIANUKE Please Support Hanna Poddig. On Thursday, May 11th, 2017 German anti-nuclear activist Hanna Poddig went to the prison of Hildesheim (Lower Saxony state) in order to serve her sentence of up to 110 days imprisonment. She had refused to pay a fine of Euro 1650 (around INR 116,000) for chaining herself to …
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Dragon Trailz blogger has written an excellent article which asks us to think about hidden from view connections The article is reposted here with kind permission. Fukushima, Fracking and Nuclear in the UK - a toxic brew. March 11th was the 6th anniversary of the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster - the planet’s worst nuclear …
From the Telegraph .... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/02/25/yeo-treasury-needs-pour-billions-nuclear-projects/ Yeo: Treasury needs to pour billions into nuclear projects hinkley The Treasury is facing calls to pour billions of pounds into a string of troubled new nuclear projects which threaten the UK’s energy supplies. Tim Yeo, a former environment minister and energy committee chairman, is warning that the only way …
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INcredible admission from a senior Vice President of EDF that nuclear is "dying" This is from this weeks newsletter http://www.carboncommentary.com. Industry news Week ending 19th February 2017 1, EDF and decentralised energy. Les Echos, the French business newspaper, carried an extraordinary article from a Senior Vice President of EdF, the largely state-owned utility that will …
