The Challenge for Atlantic Salmon -the Epic Journey Begins

Phew its taken a bit of work from Lakes Against Nuclear Dump and lots of brilliant work from lawyers Leigh Day but the papers have been filed for application for a Judicial Review of the Environment Agency’s decision to rubber stamp Sellafield’s abstraction of groundwater and dumping of that polluted water into the rivers Calder and Ehen (with no Environmental Impact Assessment or Hydrological Assessment!)

Check back for more details on the Judicial Review but in the meantime here is a snippet on the life of the Atlantic Salmon from the Woodland Trust:

“ATLANTIC SALMON

(Salmo salar)

A fish with a harsh life and epic journey. Atlantic salmon live in freshwater as juveniles and at sea as adults, then returning to spawn by swimming upriver. They’ve long been a favoured seafood, but over-fishing and pollution have seriously impacted populations.”

Famous illustrator Arthur Rackham when visualising his painting “The Salmon Has Many Enemies” for his book on “Irish Fairy Tales”  could not have imagined the ultimate enemy of radioactive and chemical pollution as is now proposed to be poured at greater volumes into two of the Lake District’s most important rivers, the Calder and the Ehen.  

This pollution is all because of the self styled “clean” nuclear waste site we know as Sellafield.

Lakes Against Nuclear Dump have taken on the challenge under the Aarhus environmental justice rules which allows individuals/groups without massive means to take on legal challenges which would otherwise be prohibitively expensive.  

Even so we need to raise £5000 and are on the way but like the Atlantic Salmon we still have an epic journey to go.  

With your help we can challenge the nuclear waste industry’s continuing and accelerating pollution of the beautiful rivers Calder and Ehen.   

Please if you cannot donate then sharing the CrowdJustice page is just as important to get the message out.  

Onwards and Upwards!

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