Whicham Parish Council have voted unanimously to withdraw from the South Copeland GDF Community Partnership. Millom Town Council withdrew a short while back. It seems Sustainable Duddon are also no longer sending a representative. So who does this leave representing the community? Two Cumberland councillors Bob Kelly and Andy Pratt who is now the chair of the Partnership and Cumberland Council have made it clear they support the GDF. How can this, therefore, be called a ‘community partnership’?
At their last meeting at Thwaites Village Hall on Tuesday 2nd September the public were not allowed to speak (15 members of the public attended the event with five leaving once they had been told the public could not speak). Neither were the public given copies of the agenda.
Add this to the fact that the so-called Community Partnership continues to ignore the potential negative effects of siting a GDF in South Copeland and what are we left with?