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Let’s be sure we learn this lesson from history as global uranium demand and Labour’s nuclear plans threaten the lives of the people of the Orkney Islands

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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 2d

Let’s be sure we learn this lesson from history as global uranium demand and Labour’s nuclear plans threaten the lives of the people of the Orkney Islands talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/31/l...

Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to Frances McKie for alerting us to this again, as she did in March 2025. In Investing.com, two days ago, the above graph and: When the U.S. government announced…

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Radiation Free Lakeland @radfreelakeland.bsky.social · 1d

Beast of Beckermet against the nuclear menace? a Lakeland story for All Hallow’s Eve radiationfreelakeland.substack.com/p/the-beast-...

The Beast of Beckermet

As the local MP for the Sellafield area Josh MacAlister is gushing over new build on the greenfields, river Ehen floodplain and woodlands of Beckermet we republish the “Beast of Beckermet”

Sellafield’s Pigeons are the Canaries in the Coal Mine - Throwback Thursday

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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament @cnduk.bsky.social · Sep 26

🚨LEGAL OPINION: UK nuke jets break international law! 🚨

A legal opinion sought by CND has found that Britain's purchase of nuclear-capable F-35A fighter jets violates its commitments under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty!

Read More: cnduk.org/legal-opinio...

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Radiation Free Lakeland @radfreelakeland.bsky.social · 3d

Sellafield's Pigeons are the Canaries in the Coal Mine radiationfreelakeland.substack.com/p/sellafield...

The Bird Ladies of Seascale

‘Don’t go near the hungry mouth"

Radiation Free Lakeland @radfreelakeland.bsky.social · 3d

Something about the abstraction of water from Britain’s Favourite View - Wastwater - emptied many times over to cool #nuclear wastes #lakewastwaterchronicles #arcticchar lakewastwaterchronicles.substack.com/p/one-eye

One Eye

Cumberland’s Local Plan “Vision” is Like Something out of Sleepy Hollow - Lovely on the surface but there is a guarded secret. They are asking for Comments - Please Comment by Halloween 31st October.

Radiation Free Lakeland @radfreelakeland.bsky.social · 5d

Cumberland’s Local Plan “Vision” is Like Something out of Sleepy Hollow - Lovely on the surface but there is a guarded secret. They are asking for Comments - Please Comment by Halloween 31st October. #gdfoff radiationfreelakeland.substack.com/p/cumberland...

You don’t have to answer their whole consultation document - the nuclear issue which pervades Cumberland and the wider Cumbria region touching all within the vicinity either directly or indirectly is ...

Environment Agency’s Nuclear Dump Consultation

Radiation Free Lakeland @radfreelakeland.bsky.social · 7d

The alternate universe within this consultation sits perceives Geological Disposal (deep burying) of Radioactive Waste as well understood/settled science – it is not. Geological Disposal is clearly an ongoing experiment #gdfoff #lakedistrict #nuclearwaste lakesagainstnucleardump.com/2025/10/26/e...

The full document can be seen here – our response is below Received from Radiation Free Lakeland (campaigns include Lakes Against Nuclear Dump) Response Radiation Free Lakeland are a voluntee…

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Radiation Free Lakeland @radfreelakeland.bsky.social · 8d

“For nuclear waste growing bigger and hotter, they’re sucking the life from Lakeland and otter, cooling the poison they’ve shipped from afar, condemning the angler and Arctic Char”. by Duncan Ball - Sellafield whistleblower lakewastwaterchronicles.substack.com/p/for-nuclea...

“For Nuclear Waste Growing Bigger and Hotter, they’re sucking the Life from Lakeland and Otter.."

Brambo has climbed up and down ancient boulders to the far end of The Screes and now hears the noisy machine thirstily sucking away the fresh water.

“For Nuclear Waste Growing Bigger and Hotter, they’re sucking the Life from Lakeland and Otter.."

Radiation Free Lakeland @radfreelakeland.bsky.social · 8d

Poem by Duncan Ball, Sellafield whistleblower - "For nuclear waste growing bigger and hotter, they’re sucking the life from Lakeland and Otter, cooling the poison …. #wastwater #sellafield #nuclearwaste #freshwater #lakedistrict #whistleblower. lakewastwaterchronicles.substack.com/p/for-nuclea...

Brambo has climbed up and down ancient boulders to the far end of The Screes and now hears the noisy machine thirstily sucking away the fresh water.

The Whitehaven Harbour Scandal and the Authorities Putting Vested Interests (Mining and Nuclear) Ahead of Public Safety and Marine Protection.

Radiation Free Lakeland @radfreelakeland.bsky.social · 14d

The Whitehaven Harbour Scandal and an Appeal for Public Safety (not to mention Marine Protection) #whitehaven #NetworkRail #sellafield #mining #pollution #marinelife radiationfreelakeland.substack.com/p/the-whiteh...

Pollution “plan” is to send it all out to the Solway Firth and Irish Sea, meanwhile the Sellafield funded (public money) Edge water sports centre opens in the Harbour to much fanfare, care for a dip?

More Freshwater is sucked away every day than is used in many Gridlock towns

Radiation Free Lakeland @radfreelakeland.bsky.social · 16d

from the #LakeWastwaterChronicles The Noxious Monster uses more freshwater than many Gridlock towns put together … #sellafield #wastwater #lakedistrict #freshwater #nuclearwaste #comicbook @wainwrightprize.bsky.social lakewastwaterchronicles.substack.com/p/more-fresh...

Brambo had been chosen of all the Gnomes to journey to the mouth of the Noxious Monster and bring back news...

Great news! CrowdJustice have extended our fundraiser for the Legal Challenge for Environment Agency’s Rubber Stamp to Sellafield discharges for another 30 days.

Radiation Free Lakeland @radfreelakeland.bsky.social · 19d

Great news - fundraiser extended for the legal challenge for Environment Agency’s rubber stamp to Sellafield discharges to the rivers Calder and Ehen #river #pollution #sellafield #leighday radiationfreelakeland.substack.com/p/great-news...

Call of the Curlew

SELLAFIELD SHUFFLE - STRIKES CAUSING MISERY FOR LOCAL FARMERS AND FOLK USING THESE RURAL ROADS

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Radiation Free Lakeland @radfreelakeland.bsky.social · 22d

The Sellafield Shuffle …. #lakedistrict #sellafield radiationfreelakeland.substack.com/p/sellafield...

Contract workers on the Sellafield site (and most of them are contract workers) have seemingly woken up to the fact that they are working on the most dangerous nuclear waste site in Europe.

Cumberland Council Receives the George Monbiot Nuclear Greenwash Award

Radiation Free Lakeland @radfreelakeland.bsky.social · 22d

#Cumberland council receive George Monbiot award for #nuclear #greenwashing on the anniversary of the #windscalefire @georgemonbiot.bsky.social lakesagainstnucleardump.com/2025/10/09/c...

I Image: The George Monbiot Nuclear Greenwash Award to Cumberland Council. The background to the image is one of the ‘Areas of Focus” Gosforth, Cumbria. Dear Cumberland Councillors, We would like t…

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Radiation Free Lakeland @radfreelakeland.bsky.social · 22d

Latest in the Lake Wastwater Chronicles … #lakedistrict #wastwater #sellafield #comicbook #freshwater open.substack.com/pub/lakewast...

He Cannot Last Long Out of Water

Brambo can hear the Gridlocks machine

Radiation Free Lakeland @radfreelakeland.bsky.social · Sep 29

Noxious Monster - its Green and Good - James Lovelock said so in his 1979 book #Gaia #lakewastwaterchronicles #wastwater #lakedistrict #sellafield open.substack.com/pub/lakewast...

Noxious Monster

Its Green and Good...

Aequa has been grazing the Wastwater deeps for 10,000 years...

Radiation Free Lakeland @radfreelakeland.bsky.social · Sep 28

Aequa has been grazing the #wastwater deeps for 10,000 years. #lakewastwaterchronicles #lakedistrict #cumbria lakewastwaterchronicles.substack.com/p/aequa-has-...

water passing through harp-like wings creates music familiar and strange like the smudged edge of a dream lost on waking…

there was a Lake called Wastwater

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Radiation Free Lakeland @radfreelakeland.bsky.social · Sep 27

In the beginning - Lake Wastwater Chronicles … #lakedistrict #freshwater #gnomes #wastwaterlake lakewastwaterchronicles.substack.com/p/in-the-beg...

In the Beginning...

Investigation into Cork fish kill fails to find definitive cause

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Sustainable Water Network (SWAN) @swanireland.ie · Sep 19

Extremely disappointing news on the Blackwater fish kill.

"It just goes to show the state bodies that are supposed to protect our fish don’t appear to be able to do so because if they can’t find the cause, how can they guarantee there won’t be a repeat?"

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Lack of clarity following extensive inquiry is described as ‘deeply regrettable’ by Minister

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Radiation Free Lakeland @radfreelakeland.bsky.social · Sep 20

Plutonium, Public Money and a Perilous Nuclear Dump on the Lake District Coast, a Letter to Cumberland Council’s “Nuclear Issues Board” #gdfoff open.substack.com/pub/radiatio...

Plutonium, Public Money and a Perilous Nuclear Dump on the Lake District Coast, a Letter to Cumberland Council’s “Nuclear Issues Board"

Sent by Email 19th September 2025

With Friends Like These...

Radiation Free Lakeland @radfreelakeland.bsky.social · Sep 20

With Friends Like These...
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This afternoon Cumbria’s most influential and most affluent landscape charity has its Annual General Meeting at the North Lakes Hotel, Penrith.

Dodgy Heysham Nuclear Power Stations just 3 miles from the City of Lancaster Have Lifetimes Extended AGAIN….and AGAIN

Radiation Free Lakeland @radfreelakeland.bsky.social · Sep 12

Should Westminster Silence Voices Opposed to Nuclear? Sign the petition here: chng.it/4BhZjSsKDf

Radiation Free Lakeland @radfreelakeland.bsky.social · Sep 7

Dodgy Lancaster Nuclear Plants have lives extended again - who will avert #nuclear #catastrophe - our regulators ? #lancaster #nuclearcatastrophe #heysham #EDF #crackedgraphite radiationfreelakeland.substack.com/p/dodgy-heys...

The following letter has been sent to the Local MP Lizzi Collinge who apparently loves EDF’s dodgy nuclear reactors in the middle of her constituency