Dear Friends

“Geology is the ground we stand on; it’s in the food we eat, and in the water we drink.”

Here is an update and history of the plan to dump high level nuclear wastes under the Lake District coast.  Seismic blasting for geological investigations was just the start.  All that stands between us and the UK’s biggest infrastructure project of a deep and very hot (100 degrees c) nuclear dump under the Irish Sea bed cradling the Lake District is a non-democratic and already corrupted “test of public support.”  

This update first appeared on Radiation Free Lakeland’s Substack….

Extract…..

“Cumbria Police’s decision to turn a blind eye to non-disclosure of nuclear interests  on the UKs biggest and most controversial infrastructure project sends a powerful message to all those in public life that vested and fiscal interests need not be declared when taking decisions on massive infrastructure projects.  Or maybe it is just nuclear that gets a free ride in the corruption of democracy?  Only the locally bought off public will we are told get a “test of public support,” not the full Cumbrian councils of Cumberland and Westmorland & Furness along with Morecambe and Lunesdale, or international areas surrounding the deep and very hot nuclear dump which would be equally impacted.  The terms of the already limited “test of public support” are to be decided by the Nuclear Waste Services led Community Partnership of which Cllr David Moore is a key member.  ……”

Read full article here