Image: The Blackpool Unicorn 

Dear Friends

Please keep sharing and talking about the petition.  The UK’s nuclear dump plan is rumbling along on the say so of just four councillors with one of those in long term receipt of substantial nuclear ££payouts.   There should be a full debate and vote by the FULL Cumberland council on whether or not to continue along this toxic path to the biggest development EVER in the UK.  

The following letter has been sent to press  (if. you see it published anywhere please let me know!)

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Blackpool is “a gem in the colourful crown of Britain’s seaside destinations.” (says Visit Britain). So it will come as a surprise to holiday makers and locals alike to learn that Blackpool Council’s Head of Planning and Conservation who is “based in Blackpool” is a key partner in manoeuvrings to deliver the biggest infrastructure project ever in the UK. The development is called a Geological Disposal Facility. 

Mine shafts would be dug by giant tunnel boring machines leading to a mined out void the size of the country of Tuvalu (26km square) up to the size of Bermuda (50 km square). The developer Nuclear Waste Services tell us that once emplaced the highly radioactive wastes, currently cooled by millions of gallons of water a day, would continue to heat up to as much as 200 degrees c. The idea is for the geology to “dissipate” the intense heat.

Blackpool can heave a sigh of relief though as their Head of Planning, Carl Carrington is not volunteering the famous tourist destination as a nuclear dump. Nope it is Beatrix Potter country, the Lake District coast in the firing line. There is a petition to sign here at www.lakesagainstnucleardump.com if you love the Lake District coast (and the oceans we all rely on).

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Here is the Head of Planning and Conservation for Blackpool Council with Stuart Maconie clearly very proud of Blackpool’s heritage - strange then that he is partners in the plan to sacrifice the Lake District coasts heritage to a very hot, very big, very dangerous nuclear dump.

https://radiationfreelakeland.substack.com/p/blackpools-head-of-planning-and-heritage

onwards and upwards

Marianne