Dear Friends,
Nuclear Waste Booby Trap for Future Generations on the Lake District Coast?
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We will be staging a creative demonstration outside the Mid-Copeland Geological Disposal Facility Partnership meeting at Calderbridge and Ponsonby Village Hall, Calderbridge, between 1:00pm–3:30pm on 8 June, 2026. Some of us will be there a bit earlier 12.30am to leaflet members of the undemocratic “Partnership” (a “partnership” with the developers Nuclear Waste Services) as they go into the meeting.
The Geological Disposal Facility (to dump high level nuclear wastes) Partnership meeting is billed for “local people,” and has a ten-minute time slot at the end, for the public to ask questions.
People are invited to join us outside the meeting, to colour in a giant postcard of the Lake District coast’s resource-rich area. At approx 3.20pm, the postcard will be handed to the Mid-Copeland GDF Partnership, along with a question that has not yet been properly answered by Nuclear Waste Services.
LAND’s question is: Areas under consideration for a deep nuclear dump previously excluded geological areas that hold resources future generations may want to access.
The coal measures extensively detailed by the refused West Cumbrian coal mine show clearly that resources remain well within the current area of focus.
Are resource-rich areas no longer excluded ?
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The known resources of coal seams, methane, and a principle freshwater aquifer should render the Lake District coast strictly off limits for burial of hot nuclear waste.
There are likely other resources too such as shale gas and iron ore, and high-grade mineralisation is known to exist along the coastal strip.
Burial of long-lasting high-level nuclear waste in a resource-rich area would be the very worst booby trap for our Lake District’s descendants.
Lakes Against Nuclear Dump will be at the Mid-Copeland GDF Partnership meeting at Calderbridge and Ponsonby Village Hall, Calderbridge between 1-3.30pm on the 8th June. Some of us will be there a bit earlier 12.30am to leaflet members of the “Partnership” as they go into the meeting. -
Also we have a fundraising campaign - Grab a beautiful calendar and support the campaign to protect the Lake District coast from the biggest development ever! More here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/our-lovely-lake-district-in-photos-2027-calendar
Onwards and Upwards!
Marianne