Nuclear – Its Not Clean, Green, Safe or New: “New Green Industrial Revolution”

Letter sent to Boris Johnson today by Radiation Free Lakeland following unveiling of the Green Industrial Revolution "10 Point Plan" On the Irish Sea bed - decades worth of Sellafield radioactive waste discharges - Under the Sea bed. - the plan for the Coal Mine. Dear Prime Minister Radiation Free Lakeland are a small voluntary …

“The Age of Nuclear Waste is Just Beginning”, by Dr Gordon Edwards

This is excellent.   An assessment in clear understandable language by nuclear expert Dr Gordon Edwards. The Age of Nuclear Waste is Just Beginning   (featured image is of spent fuel flasks going over Morecambe Bay, nuclear waste comes to Cumbria from all nuclear reactors in the UK) On July 25, 2015, Green Majority of Canada published …

The French Resistance at Bure

BURE will be their downfall struggle against the nuclear waste landfill project (CIGEO) in Bure – France   http://en.vmc.camp/2016/07/12/massive-reoccupation-demo-we-take-the-forest-back/ Massive reoccupation demo : we take the forest back ! Bure will be their downfall > Automedia > Massive reoccupation demo : we take the forest back ! vmc July 12, 2016 So they sent cops by …

Did We Just Stop Radioactive Waste Going Into Whitemoss Landfill? Who Knows?

A while back the brilliant anti fracking campaigner Tina Louise Rothery posted on the Radiation Free Lakeland facebook page requesting help to stop the huge expansion of Whitemoss landfill. We looked at Whitemoss, near Skelmersdale and what goes into the landfill is very, very  nasty ….even without radioactive wastes. What we found though was that Whitemoss …

Rheged: Please Don’t Greenwash Increased Nuclear Waste Dumping

    Correspondence below with Rheged's Sarah Dunning .  Rheged will once again greenwash the Nuclear Industry's Low Level Waste Conference despite the increasing and accelerating dumping of radioactive wastes into Cumbrian soil, air and water Dear Sarah, Nuclear Industry Low Level Waste Conference at Rheged Thank you for the quick reply. Your support of hill …

Tim Farron MP “Powerful Evidence” to Pull the Plug on Radioactive Fly Tipping

MP Tim Farron says there is "powerful evidence" for pulling the plug on the most dangerous fly tipping in the world.. fly tipping that sanctions "radioactive releases to groundwaters" in Cumbria. He has written to DECC and DEFRA asking for the "exempt" law allowing High Volume Very Low Level Wastes to be tipped into landfill …

Radioactive Yellow Fish Seen in the Lakes

Radiation Free Lakeland met with Tim Farron MP on Sat 21st to deliver 189 letters urging the Westmorland and Lonsdale MP and member of the coalition government to revoke the “exempt” law allowing radioactive wastes into landfill. The campaign group were asking the question: What nasty rogue regime would “release radioactivity to groundwaters” within a …

From Scotland to Cumbria – Radioactive Landfill

This Thursday Radiation Free Lakeland will show support for Cumbria County Council and Copeland Borough Council in their opposition to further millions of tonnes of radioactive waste being trucked down from Scotland to be dumped in Cumbrian Landfill. A demonstration of support will be held at the Copeland Centre, Whitehaven, the venue for the Committee …

Good Day to Bury Bad News: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle…Make Room for Nuclear

A good day to bury bad news? On Friday 8th March Sellafield will be sentenced for dumping low and intermediate level waste into Lillyhall landfill. Earlier this month Sellafield stood at Workington Magistrates Court accused of sending radioactive waste to landfill at Lillyhall. They pleaded guilty. The magistrate deemed the offence so serious that the …

Letter to Secretary of State: No Radioactive Landfill – Keekle Head

Press Notice Radiation Free Lakeland Following an appeal by the company wanting to dump low level waste at Keekle Head, Radiation Free Lakeland have written to the Secretary of State urging Cumbria County Council's refusal for Keekle Head low level nuclear dump is upheld. Jamie Reed MP's rational objection to a low level nuclear dump …