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Louth MP welcomes council’s decision to pull out of nuclear waste dump group

By Richard Silverwood, 17th Feb 2025,

 Louth’s MP has welcomed the key decision by a council to pull out of the
group central to plans for a nuclear waste dump. The Theddlethorpe
Community Partnership has been set up by Nuclear Waste Services (NWS), the
government agency that has earmarked two possible East Lindsey locations
for the dump, known as a GDF (geological disposal facility). Its purpose is
to explain the proposals to residents and councillors, and to persuade them
that the GDF would be safe and secure in the Lincolnshire area. Coun Craig
Leyland, the Conservative leader of the council, said this was a blatant
switch from a ‘brownfield’ site and “would scar several kilometres of
farmland on the margins of the Lincolnshire Wolds”. Now MP Victoria
Atkins has echoed this view. She said: “When the latest proposals were
revealed by NWS, I immediately called a meeting with Coun Leyland and Coun
Martin Hill, the leader of Lincolnshire County Council, to reiterate local
residents’ opposition to a dump.

 Lincolnshire World 17th Feb 2025

February 20, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, UK