“Offensive” “Disturbing” “Distasteful” “Poorly Researched” says Nuclear Dump Partner.

Don’t get your hopes up, he isn’t saying this about the nuclear dump but about an unpublished and entirely factual letter I shared on the Radiation Free Lakeland substack.

The Big One

The comment below was put on my personal facebook page from South Copeland Community Partnership member Carl Carrington (also Head of Planning for Blackpool Council) :

“Carl Carrington

I’m not exactly sure what I’ve done to offend you Marianne, but you seem not to understand my role within the South Copeland Community Partnership. I am the representative of my parish council in Millom Without and anyone reading the Parish Council minutes will see that as part of my role I take decisions back to my Parish Council and they decide how their representation is to be used, very much like the representative for Whicham Parish Council. I give my report and any recommendations on actions in the Parish Council meeting which is held in public. Any decisions are minuted and are there for anyone to read on our parish notice board and online. What I find most disturbing and frankly distasteful, is the way in which you’ve chosen to single me out because I work in the public sector, and portray me as some kind of quisling…. I don’t represent my employer who has no role in any of this, I represent my local parish council in the place where I live. Have you publicly vilified other members of the Partnership? Or is it just me? If so, I’m genuinely at a loss as to why. Noting in the attached post that you circulated it to news outlets some time ago, I’m not surprised that haven’t taken up such a poorly researched or evidenced article. I am reporting this post and passing it on to UK and Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities.”

Sheesh! I wonder how offended Blackpool would be if Carl who clearly loves the heritage of Blackpool (speaking often to the Fylde Civic Societies and the BBC) was the “go-between” of Nuclear Waste Services and Blackpool Council in machinations to deliver a deep and very hot nuclear dump on and under the Blackpool coast? Obviously we are not suggesting the UKs (and much of the world’s nuclear waste) should be buried under the Blackpool coast, it should not be buried and abandoned ANYWHERE. It is astounding that Heritage and Conservation personalities and conservation groups such as Carl Carrington and Friends of the Lake District who should be shouting loudest against this diabolic plan are actively partnering with the developer Nuclear Waste Services (a government limited company) in delivery of a deep and very hot sub-sea nuclear dump.

Post below from 20th May

Partnership to Deliver a Deep Sub-Sea Nuclear Dump.

A letter to press (unpublished? let me know if you see it!)

Head of Planning and Heritage for Blackpool Council Explores the Tower and Winter Gardens with Stuart Maconie. Carl Carrington also happens to be a Partner with Nuclear Waste Services in Delivery of a Nuclear Dump aka Geological Disposal Facility.

The following letter was sent to press ..some time ago ….

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).