10 December 2024 – sorry forgot to post! The UK/Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities have made an appeal to the South Copeland GDF Community Partnership and Nuclear Waste Services to exclude tourist spots, heritage sites and the local prison from consideration as Areas of Focus in South Copeland. The Chair of the NFLAs, Councillor Lawrence […]
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MILLOM TOWN COUNCIL WITHDRAWS FROM COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP??
The draft minutes for the November meeting of Millom Town Council says: 150/24: SOUTH COPELAND GDF PARTNERSHIP: Cllr Faulkner raised concerns following the latest South Copeland GDF Partnership meeting where she had attended on behalf of Millom Town Council. Cllr Falkner’s main concerns were as follows: MTC have always declared itself neutral in the GDF […]
Ask the locals: NFLA Chair says it is ‘prudent and proper’ for Nuclear Waste Services to consult residents over South Copeland flooding risk
Nuclear Free Local Authorities: 16th January 2025 The UK/Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities have urged Nuclear Waste Services and the South Copeland GDF Community Partnership to ask the residents of Millom and Haverigg for help in identifying local sites which have been flooded. As part of its ongoing effort to locate a potential site for […]
Ask the locals: NFLA Chair says it is ‘prudent and proper’ for Nuclear WasteServices to consult residents over South Copeland flooding risk
NFLA media release, 16 January 2025 The UK/Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities have urged Nuclear Waste Services and the South Copeland GDF Community Partnership to ask the residents of Millom and Haverigg for help in identifying local sites which have been flooded. As part of its ongoing effort to locate a potential site for a […]
Is the Haverigg wind project once more under a nuclear threat?
Nuclear Free Local Authorities Press Release, 8th January 2025 Standing alongside the perimeter of the old RAF Millom are eight wind turbines generating clean energy for the nation, and the UK/Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities fear they may be threatened by the latest plans to bring a nuclear waste dump to Haverigg and Millom. A […]
No more buckets and spades – would nuke dump end West Cumbrian tourism?
Nuclear Free Local Authorities Press Release, 7th January 2025 The UK/Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities fear the siting of a Geological Disposal Facility in the South Copeland Search Area could lead to irrecoverable damage to the tourist economy and the loss of many local jobs. Local campaigners in Millom and District against the Nuclear Dump […]
OVER 200 JOBS COULD BE LOST
NFLA media release, 7 Aug 2024, For immediate use Over two hundred jobs may be lost if Haverigg jail is displaced by nuclear dump Whilst Nuclear Waste Services are keen to promote the number of jobs that might be created by the establishment of a Geological Disposal Facility in West Cumbria, there is less clarity […]
50% now support GDF?
According to the latest survey conducted by Yonder the percentage of people who now support a GDF in our area has risen significantly to 50%. Why is this? First of all, it is partly because Drigg and Carleton are now in South Copeland. Secondly, we have had two years of drip-drip propaganda. Thirdly, we have […]
BBC: Whicham residents ‘oppose’ nuclear waste plant say parish council
BBC News have published an article acknowledging that Whicham Parish Council conducted a survey of local residents and found 70% are opposed to a nuclear dump being sited in their area (Haverigg/Kirksanton).
South Holderness Proposed New Site – Withdrawn almost immediately!
Someone in South Holderness https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-68082963?fbclid=IwAR0Ba1H2hlX3FSfI0VyEbS2WYS9cR-xmIPk1J8_XKBWDl9J88cOYKePMPBg proposed the area as a potential site for the GDF. However, within a matter of weeks the leading authority East Riding of Yorkshire Council withdrew from the process. And that is a Tory led Council! Would that Cumberland Council (Labour led) would follow suit.