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Lobbyists from West Cumbria Mining appointed to Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM)

Radiation Free Lakeland 19th Feb 2021, Letter sent today to MP Tim Farron from Radiation Free Lakeland. We haven been looking at West Cumbria Mining’s lobbying over the last several years. While WCM class themselves as a “small company” in order it seems to avoid full filing of company finances, they have been afforded incredible access to key government departments. Access that other Cumbrian small businesses could only dream of.
Meetings have taken place between West Cumbria Mining and at least three government departments including BEIS – the dept which is responsible for CoRWM appointments. The public would rightly assume that CoRWM and other government departments in the interests of transparency and ethics would not ever consider public appointments of individuals who have previously and continue to repeatedly lobby government departments to advance their business interests.
Especially when those business interests include the most controversial coal mine in UK history which coincidently is in the area where the UK government have repeatedly tried to progress Geological Disposal plans despite cumulative scientific evidence that the plan is dangerous (we
wonder how CoRWM expect Mark Kirkbride’s business interests of a coal mine in the same area will make the already complex and faulted geology in the Eastern Irish Sea area safer?)

https://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2021/02/19/government-appointment-of-coal-mine-ceo-to-uk-nuke-dump-plans-not-dodgy-at-all/

February 22, 2021 - Posted by | politics, UK

1 Comment »

  1. Thank you for publishing this. Our own UK press and NGOs are failing the public by focussing myopically on climate and jobs rather than the bigger picture. The public are not being told of the governmental nuclear links to this coal mine which is just a few miles from Sellafield.

    Many thanks again!!

    mariannewildart's avatar Comment by mariannewildart | February 22, 2021 | Reply


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