THANKS TO ALL YOU LOVELY FOLK who have campaigned tirelessly to raise the alarm about the diabolic plan for 3 reactors on greenfields near to Sellafield. The Guardian and other press have reported today that: "“Toshiba recognises that the economically rational decision is to withdraw from the UK nuclear power plant construction project, and has …
Continue reading WE DID IT (MAYBE?) DID WE JUST STOP MOORSIDE?
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 …
The Whitehaven News reports today on the worst kept secret that Toshiba is financially torpedoing. Still not to worry eh, there are still slush funds aplenty to greenwash the increasingly despised Moorside plan. Apart from NuGen (100% Toshiba) the other two sponsors are the Copeland Community Fund ( this fund doles out the £millions Cumbria …
Dear Friends, The Moorside plan is they say on hold this is not good enough it should be scrapped. As if the Moorside plan being merely on hold wasn't bad enough, there is now a plan to reopen the dangerous old coal mine at Whitehaven. The proposed licenses for this would extend to within a …
Continue reading COAL, FRACKING and NUCLEAR in Close Proximity! Are they having a laugh?
FRom this time last year ..an excellent Blogger "It Happens" wrote the following ...now more urgent than ever with the financially troubled Toshiba let loose and already trashing this special, fragile and already vulnerable place in such close proximity to Sellafield. New Years Resolution .........#StopMoorside "FRIDAY, 1 JANUARY 2016 Why don't you build on flood …
Continue reading The Bog Holes and the River Ehen being Trashed by Toshiba..New Year New Crimes?
Moorside – Engie [Machine Translation] The French group is trying to abandon its projects in Turkey and Great Britain. A split of the Belgian subsidiary is envisaged. Nuclear power is soon over for Engie. For a few months, the French energy company has begun a major strategic shift by focusing on renewable energies. But this …
And the UK is just about to sign up for more of these cancer (and other radiation linked disease) factories! The Ecologist writes: Sizewell B and 27 other EDF nuclear plants 'at risk of catastrophic failure' Oliver Tickell 29th September 2016 A new report finds that 28 nuclear reactors, 18 of them EDF plants in …
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Letter sent today .... Dear Lord Bragg, LAND GRABBING MAFIA When I heard your voice on the radio talking about the “disgraceful purchase of land, shameful manoeuvring, bullying mafia tactics” I thought Hurrah! Melvyn has read all our many letters to him and is at last holding the nuclear industry to account! It was …
George Monbiot is right: wholesale destruction of wildlife is obscene (The grouse shooters aim to kill, 16 August). Why no grousing, then, on the imminent destruction of the diverse habitats and endangered species, including many red list birds, on the west coast of Cumbria? Why no grouse about the collateral damage in obsessive pursuit …
