nuclear-news

If you look at a satellite map of Cumbria it is obvious to all but the most wilfully nuclear blind that Sellafield is the biggest single solid concrete mass.  This weeks Podium piece in the Westmorland Gazette written by John Woodcock MP for Furness  invokes the Jodi Mitchell song “Big Yellow Taxi.”  The famous “pave paradise” lyrics are spoken by John Woodcock to divert attention away from the growing concrete nuclear mass which he supports and to divert attention to the pylons.  What a brass neck – and the Westmorland Gazette are only too happy to hand him the brasso while ignoring the main event.  The Furness MP fails to mention that should Moorside be allowed to happen the most important role of the various transmission lines of pylons, would be their role in taking electricity TO the proposed Moorside nuclear reactors.

I’m not sure that Joni Mitchell will be…