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UK useful Cumbria waste storage activist links for upcoming meetings

18 January 2013

Radwaste

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On 10 January 2013, the group of all 6 Cumbria MP’s met in Westminster Parliament, to hear evidence concerning radioactive waste investigations and the NDA proposals to buld a GDF, should a suitable site be found. Evidence presented by Stuart Haszeldine and David Smythe is available here.

Edinburgh University School of Geo Sciences 17th Jan 2013 more »

FOUR of Cumbria’s six MPs favour a geological search to see if there is anywhere in the west of the county which might prove suitable to bury radioactive waste. West Cumbria’s two MPs – Jamie Reed (Copeland) and Sir Tony Cunningham (Workington) – have given their backing along with Carlisle’s John Stevenson and Barrow’s John Woodcock following an informal Cumbria cross-party MP session in Westminster. But Rory Stewart (Penrith and The Border) and Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale) say no formal decision was reached in last Thursday’s evidence-gathering session, held ahead of the January 30 meetings in which Cumbria County Council Cabinet, Copeland and Allerdale borough council executives will decide whether to start trying to identify a potentially suitable underground site through desk top studies. Meanwhile energy minister Baroness Verma has written to the three councils stressing government commitment to make “right of withdrawal” from the repository process legally binding as well as giving assurances over community benefits at a future stage.

Whitehaven News 17th Jan 2013 more »

Baroness Verma’s webchat is available here.

Carlisle News and Stat 17th Jan 2013 more »

Whitehaven News 17th Jan 2013 more »

Stop Nuclear Waste Plans for the Lake District Petition.

38 Degress 17th Jan 2013 more »

Businesses from across Cumbria will be heading down to Westminster to take part in the first Cumbria Day. It has been organised by the county’s MPs who have put party politics to one side to promote Cumbria together. The aim is show decision makers that there is more to Cumbria than the lakes and mountain which draw millions of visitors each year.

ITV 17th Jan 2013 more »

More than 500 people attended a meeting in Keswick to discuss their opposition to plans to bury radioactive waste under the Lake District or the Solway. Cumbria County Council, Allerdale Council and Copeland Council are to vote on whether the Government should include West Cumbria in a list of sites being searched for a a new underground repository for high-level radioactive waste. A quarter of West Cumbria was ruled out of the site search by a preliminary report of the British Geological Survey in 2010. The survey shows 75 per cent of the area left is within the national park. Campaigners have produced a video explaining their opposition to the plans to use Ennerdale as a place to dump nuclear waste underground.

Cumbria24 13th Jan 2013 more »

DITCH THE DUMP DEMO at Bowness Bay on Saturday 19th January 10am for a couple of hours. Come along and join in the Demonstration! There will be street theatre and art events. Help make a giant postcard to present to the Cabinet of Cumbria County Council and come along to make your voice heard.

Facebook 17th Jan 2013 more »

There is a demo in Cumbria on Saturday about the concerns of waste storage up there. Many of us here aren’t able to get up there this saturday so we want to offer solidarity to their action. We have recently been creating a presecence at the railhead where they transfer the highly dangerous radwaste in the middle of Bridgwater town right next to Eastover Primary School. Because of this this saturdays solidarity demo will be outside the railway station in Bridgwater with or without radioactive waste barrel costumes, please come and lend a hand giving out fliers, or just being a presence as a group.

Facebook 17th Jan 2013 more »

Kit and Charles Graves, directors of Lake District Hotels Ltd, have sent this message to people in the hope it will be forwarded, and those of you who object to what may happen will do something to help.

Visit Cumbria (accessed) 17th Jan 2013 more »

HALF a million pounds will be spent on protecting the Lake District’s image if councils agree to look for a nuclear waste burial site in West Cumbria. The Government has earmarked the £500,000 for a nationwide advertising campaign on top of £3.25 million already spent by the Department of Energy on the repository process, The Whitehaven News can reveal. Repository critic and Ennerdale parish councillor David Wood said: “The prospect of this money confirms that siting a GDF in the Lake District will damage the Lake District brand image – otherwise why is so much additional public money being used to promote tourism in Cumbria?

Whitehaven News 17th Jan 2013 more »

Letter from Bruce McKirdy: First, regarding Ennerdale – Mr Wood is entirely correct in saying that we have no current proposals for Ennerdale. The fact that Dr Dearlove, who advised the MRWS Partnership on geology, thinks it may be suitable does not mean we will investigate it in Stage 4. However, if the community decides to proceed to stage 4 and offers it up for investigation we will investigate it (as we would any other site or area offered up by a community). By community, I mean the decision- making bodies (DMBs) who would be advised by a community siting partnership. The definition of those terms is given in the report from the MRWS partnership.

Whitehaven News 17th Jan 2013 more »

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January 18, 2013 - Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized