Cumbria is the April Fool in this Nuclear Waste Scandal

Posted on April 1, 2015 by mariannewildart

Shockingly the Daily Mail is the ONLY paper to expose this – and even that with a somewhat neutered letter on the Letters Page…the original sent to all press is below

Nuclear Waste Scandal

In the last gasp of Parliament before the election, something momentous
and awful happened but who knew?

Who knew that our government had asked MPs to vote to make nuclear waste
dumps Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects? There was no debate
or even vote in the lobbies of the Commons, voting was done by filling in
a form. MPs voted 277 votes to 33 to dump democracy. Big NGO’s and the
press have played their part by their silence.

The normal checks and balances of democracy are wiped away by undemocratic
NSIP. Normal rules of planning protections are voided by NSIP. There would
be no public inquiry and no meaningful scrutiny or debate from full
council meetings.

The fig leaf of “positive test of public support” (still to be decided
upon by government!) would be followed by the final decision being made by
the Secretary of State.

There is a predetermined government agenda to “implement geological
disposal.” The UK government (in England only!) has signed up to
“implement geological disposal” and realistically only nuclear compliant
Cumbria is in the frame as nuclear patsy.

If our grandfathers’ and grandmothers’ had gone along with the dumping of
heat generating radioactive wastes deep under Cumbria would I now be
sitting at a desk in Cumbria drinking a glass of water and writing about
it? Many scientists and geologists have good reason to think not. They
have good reason to think that geological ‘disposal’ does not work.

Keeping heat generating nuclear wastes isolated from the biosphere is the
biggest challenge for mankind. The ruthless undemocratic push for
“implementation of geological disposal” is however a means to make ever
more nuclear wastes (useful only for weapons) by falsely promising “a
final solution.” “The final solution” of geological dumping of heat
generating nuclear wastes is now officially open for all manner of
corruption and can now be forced on Cumbria …but who knew?

Yours sincerely,

Marianne Birkby
On behalf of Radiation Free Lakeland

April 3, 2015 - Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized

1 Comment »

To all my fellow Cumbrians, I have now lived in New Zealand for almost 50 yrs, Nuclear Power is as aborent to me now as it was when I lived in Cumbria, and i lived just down the road from were the proposed site is being suggested under Red Pike in Buttermere, and for this to be stated that it would be the safest place is absolute crap, WIPP in Mexico has in recent times had a mishap and i believe after only 15yrs and is now contaminated beyond safe limits, it too was designed for 10,000yrs how can anybody say Cumbria will be any different for 10,000yrs do the guards get long life pensions or will robots guard the tunnel? Hard drives fail in less than 1,000 hrs, so lets not kid ourselves Nuclear is not cheap how long will it be before Cumbria becomes another Fukushima an absolute world disaster,definitely not clean, it’s not safe particularly when it goes wrong and the cost of decommissioning is another load of crap, Sellafield is to take 120yrs to decommission, at huge cost to the tax payers, So lets make some sensible decisions and stop using nuclear and spend the money on solar and other forms of generation and retain the clean beauty of my homeland for the next 10,000yrs, NO Contamination of the LAKES and CUMBRIA at any PRiCE!
Just a note Sellafield has already had a Fukushima but that was a long time ago, thankful for short memories.
Cumbria will always be dear to me its such a beautifull place
SYD SCOTT Whangarei New Zealand

Comment by Syd Scott | April 3, 2015 | Reply