Image: Seascale before Sellafield - now the plan is to "dispose" of high level and very hot nuclear wastes (including 140 tonnes of plutonium) under the seabed with headworks on land which would be a massive nuclear sprawl rivalling Sellafield itself. Meanwhile nuclear wastes would continue to arrive in Cumbria.
Following Millom Town Council's withdrawal from the so called South Copeland Community Partnership with Nuclear Waste Services, Seascale Parish Council in the Mid-Copeland Partnership has rejected the plan for the nuclear dump headworks in or near their village.
This is significant as Seascale village lying as it does adjacent to the sprawling Sellafield nuclear waste site must be the most nuclear complicit village in the UK.
This is what Seascale Parish Council have said:
"From Seascale Parish Council's meeting on Wednesday we talked about GDF's potential area of focus for Headworks and were shown a map of a potential area for Seascale. As a Parish Council we rejected the proposal as it was not suitable for Seascale at all, but there needs to be more that just our voice, attached is a map of the proposed Headworks location for Seascale
We encourage residents to attend these events with GDF and voice their concerns too,
More information about their areas of focus including a brochure and other upcoming events can be found here:
Ironically the Copeland (now Cumberland) councillor who was one of less than a handful who took the delegated decision to take the Lake District coastline once again into the nuclear dump plan is Vice chair of Seascale Parish Council. The Chair is Lizzie Mawson whose thriving ice-cream, bakery and cafe looks out over the small area of Seascale beach not an "area of focus". Reality is beginning to bite despite the £Millions doled out by Nuclear Waste Services to all sorts of local causes.
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