Radiation Free Lakeland's Letter to the National Grid is below - you can write and oppose the pylons and more importantly what is at the end of them ... email/write/phone by FRIDAY 6th January 5pm to nationalgrid@northwestcoastconnections.com freephone number: 0800 876 6990 To the National Grid. Radiation Free Lakeland are a volunteer nuclear safety group …
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I was so sad to hear 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 her was quite recently when she phoned me up to let me know that she had given National Grid a piece of …
Wordsworth Reloaded for proMoorside, proTrident John Woodcock MP's much publicised Pylon Walk on New Years Day : "I wandered lonely in vale And hill as a cloud of smoke n' mirrors Full hid Satan's Cauldron spew no one Eyed the cancerous atomic brew. Trident Lovers lit mirrors brightly reflecting pylons In grotesque hue. By smoke …
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If you look at a satellite map of Cumbria it is obvious to all but the most wilfully nuclear blind that Sellafield is the biggest single solid concrete mass. This weeks Podium piece in the Westmorland Gazette written by John Woodcock MP for Furness invokes the Jodi Mitchell song "Big Yellow Taxi." The famous "pave …
Last night supporters of a Radiation Free Lakeland went along to the meeting called by Power without Pylons. The meeting at the pretty village of Broughton in Furness was attended by a whole host of people who have been given the green light by the great and the good to vehemently oppose the Pylons while …
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RELATIVE LIFETIMES A. PYLONS From Moorside - 60 Years B. HIGH BURN NUCLEAR WASTE FROM MOORSIDE- 250MILLION YEARS Recieved this today from Friends of the Lake District. It is beyond satire FoLD and all other conservation, wildlife, countryside and other groups tasked with "protecting" Cumbria are clamouring to stand up and say a vehement …
LEAFLETTING AND DEMONSTRATION TO STOP MOORSIDE from 5.30pm @Broughton Victory Hall on 28th October On 28th October at 6.30pm at Broughton's Victory Hall, Pro-Moorside MP will address a meeting called by Power Without Pylon campaigners. The pylons have been flagged up remorselessly in the media as the biggest threat from Moorside. The Pylons would be …
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PRESS NOTICE Letter Sent to *All South Lakeland and Copeland Parish Councils ahead of the Pylon Consultation for the Biggest Nuclear Development in Europe. PYLONS AND MOORSIDE Dear *Lakes Parish Council, Thank you for teaming up with neighbouring councils to fight the pylons. Cumbrians are increasingly concerned about all the impacts from Moorside. The …
Continue reading Never Mind the Pylons: Stop Moorside Say 70% on Evening Mail Poll
The Evening Mail's Pylon Poll has the option (unlike the actual Consultations) to vote No to Moorside...the poll is now standing at 70% saying No to Moorside ...this is absolutely remarkable and very heartening given that the Friends of the Lake District and other groups along with the media are concentrating campaign efforts and media …
Continue reading PYLONS:What Decision Would You Like National Grid to Make? 70% Say No to Moorside
Parish Councils around the Cumbrian Coast have teamed up to oppose the giant pylons from Moorside. Former US nuclear regulator Arnie Gundersen has told Radiation Free Lakeland that there would need to be two transmission lines 10 miles apart. Pylons are the least worst thing about Moorside. We suspect that those few Parish Councillors who …
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