Image – first protest against the coal mine in 2017 where nuclear concerns were foremost – this was before we knew that the coal mine boss was to be recruited in 2019 to the present day as the UKs Nuclear Dump Advisor. 

Dear Friends

You may have read in the national press that the UK Government is being sued by the failed West Cumbria Coal Mine - this is not the whole or even the worst part of the story.  

I have written a letter below to local and national press – its a strange story of shysters, corruption, collusion and democratic deficit.  With your help we exposed the dangerous seismic blasting advised by the Coal Mine Boss/Nuclear Dump Advisor but there is more…. please, especially if you live in Cumbria,  sign and share the new petition.  This is calling for the full Cumberland Council to fulfill their democratic duty and debate and vote before taking another step along the experimental nuclear dump plans.  The  advisor in the next step along the toxic nuclear dump route (deep investigative boreholes) is the guy suing the Government for rejecting his coal mine.  The deep nuclear dump borehole testing would be similar but far deeper than his investigative coal mine boreholes which may well have caused the acid mine pollution in Whitehaven harbour.

Dear Editor

The nastiest turn of the screw in the failed Cumbria coalmine suing government has got to be the bizarre employment by Government of West Cumbria Mining’s CEO Mark Kirkbride to advise on the “biggest infrastructure project ever in the UK.”

Kirkbride has far bigger fish to fry than a coal mine.  He is aiming for a mine off the Lake District coast as big as Taiwan at 36km square in which to dump the UK’s very hot (up to 200 degrees c) nuclear wastes.  

In December 2023 a petition of nearly 2000 signatures was sent to the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management asking for Kirkbride to be sacked from his government advisor role and calling for an “investigation into how this situation of cronyism has been allowed to continue for so long.”  

Whitehaven & Workington MP Josh MacAlister said  Kirkbride’s coal mine was  ”rejected because subsidence damage may be caused to land or property in the vicinity of the proposed mine.”  

To sum up, UK Government is being sued by the guy they are still employing to advise on mining out a sub-sea nuclear dump, whose coal mine was rejected because he underestimated subsidence.  Are we feeling lucky?  The democratic deficit continues with the local council signing Cumbria up to the experimental nuclear dump on the say so of just four councillors – big friends of Kirkbride.  

There is a petition here please sign and share especially if you live in Cumbria:   https://www.change.org/CumbriaNuclearDump

Onwards and Upwards!