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Weʼve raised £1,805 to Help Save Cumbria from "Europe's Biggest Nuclear Development." Already drilling rigs have gone up on the floodplain of the River Ehen.
- Saint Bridget Beckermet, Calder Bridge, United Kingdom
- Funded on Sunday, 10th July 2016
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Nuclear industrialisation of the internationally protected River Ehen floodplain has already begun with drilling rigs for over 300 "exploratory" boreholes. This is what a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project looks like with the OK for 300 boreholes given by one Copeland Council "designated officer."
We do not want the "biggest nuclear development in Europe" to be plonked here next to Sellafield on this very special but already damaged land which is an important buffer zone.
Instead of honouring the brave beautiful wildlife diverse landscape which was bought up by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority next to Sellafield, the government have opened the door to the nuclear developers responsible for Fukushima.
"The Moorside Project" is being promoted by NUGEN a company 60% owned by Toshiba and 40% by Engie
Toshiba’s proposed three new reactors are AP1000s. These are the next generation of the same old uranium burning technology. The difference is that these reactors burn the uranium for longer and harder. The resulting radioactive wastes are much hotter and have to be cooled for decades longer. Currently Sellafield uses over 4 million gallons of water daily for processes including the vital cooling of wastes. This fresh water is abstracted from Wastwater, the River Ehen, the River Calder and boreholes in the area. Sellafield stopped producing electricity in 2003.
The Moorside plan would be above the West Cumbria Aquifer.
We cannot stand by and let this happen but we need expert help. All money raised would go towards securing that help from a wide spectrum of experts from human rights experts to ecologists to radiation scientists
Please help to Stop Moorside.
Please Please Save Cumbria and our Neighbours from "Europe's Biggest Nuclear Development."
Updates
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- 8 years ago
Marianne Birkby
8 years agoDear Friends, THANK YOU! With your generous donations we have now commissioned a report into some of the major health impacts that would result from Moorside. We will continue fundraising for the Stop Moorside fighting fund to enable more reports on ecology and the abuse of human rights. THANK YOU to everyone and keep Resisting! There are lots of ways to resist that do not involve ££s from putting up STOP MOORSIDE posters in your window, Banners in fields, Lobbying wildlife, countryside and health groups. Say NO in as many ways as you can!
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- 8 years ago
Marianne Birkby
8 years agoMany Thanks to CND North Cumbria for everything you are doing to Stop Moorside ...Resistance and Solidarity is Growing !
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- 8 years ago
Marianne Birkby
8 years agoDear Allan, thank you for your support to Stop Moorside and for fighting to Stop Hinkley....Solidarity!
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- 8 years ago
Marianne Birkby
8 years agoGReat news...we have **MANY THANKS** to all your generous donations now been able to commission at least one expert report into the impacts of Moorside. The more we can raise the more we can do to #StopMoorside . Let's see if we can raise the target of £5000 and DO MORE.
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98
hENBANE
Jul 9, 2016
£20.00
Linda Walker
Jul 8, 2016
£20.00
Patsy Lingley
Jul 7, 2016
£20.00
Rowan Benjamin Thompson
Jul 7, 2016
We simply have too stop this!
£30.00
Kate Staveley
Jul 7, 2016
Wish I could do more! It's crazy what they are thinking to build..and everyone seems to just bury their heads in the sand as its "too scary to think about!".. Well Thank-you All who aren't!
£20.00
Irene Sanderson North Cumbria CND
Jul 6, 2016
We send our support to oppose this as no one can deny that this development will be a disaster for Cumbria's environment, wildlife and those who treasure these.
£20.00
Allan Jeffery
Jul 3, 2016
Fighting Hinkley in Somerset, we are fully behind you against this disastrous project at Moorside. Together we must protect our beautiful country from these NUCLEAR WASTE FACTORIES, for our children
£50.00
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Marianne Birkby
Saint Bridget Beckermet, Calder Bridge, United Kingdom
founder of Radiation Free Lakeland