Please Join us on 29th - midday at Brockhole, Ambleside
National "Out of Your Tree" Week
- Vigil on the Monkey Puzzle Lawn, National Park Centre, Brockhole 29th
Nov -
Nuclear Dump under Ennerdale Forests OK - but Monkey Puzzle "spoiled view"
say Lake District National Park
contact Radiation Free Lakeland 015395 63671
http://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/nuclear-forests29th-nov-brockhole/
Radiation Free Lakeland invite people to join them at 12 noon on thursday
29th Nov at Brockhole on the Monkey Puzzle lawn to remember the Monkey
Puzzle and:
Save the Forests from Nuclear Madness!
On Thursday 29th November as part of National Tree Week Radiation Free
Lakeland will be lighting a candle for the Brockhole Monkey Puzzle to
apologise for being unable to stop the felling by a ruthless and
ultimately unaccountable National Park Authority.
Following the vigil for the Monkey Puzzle the group will don mock
biohazard suits and unfurl banners opposing the geological dumping of high
level nuclear wastes under Lakeland Forests. Wild Ennerdale along with the
Solway is one of the areas being eyed up as the nuclear dumping ground,
much of Ennerdale is in public ownership. The experience at Brockhole with
the much loved Monkey Puzzle shows that public ownership counts for
little.
Monkey Puzzle trees are a living fossil they have witnessed the birth and
death of stars and the evolution of species but the threat of their
extinction has never been so real as now. The Brockhole Monkey Puzzle is a
potent symbol of what could happen to Cumbria in the near future. The
pieces of the complex puzzle of life could be lost, the DNA of Lakeland
and Cumbria irreversibly smashed with a superior sneer and the blessing of
our movers and shakers.
Radiation Free Lakeland invite people to join them at 12 noon on thursday
29th Nov at Brockhole on the Monkey Puzzle lawn to remember the Monkey
Puzzle and:
Save the Forests from Nuclear Madness!
more info:
Ignoring the feelings of the public and advice of experts, on November
5th, the Lake District National Park Authority felled a much loved 110
year old monkey puzzle tree at Brockhole, the LDNPA centre, because they
said it “spoiled the view.” At the same time the Authority are happy to go
along with the government plan to dump high level nuclear waste under the
National Park as long as the above surface facilities are screened from
view!
The primary role of the Lake District National Park is that of watch dog.
Their remit is to protect the unique place that is Cumbria from
developments that are unacceptable. The government plan to dump high level
nuclear waste under the Lake District is the most unacceptable development
in the history of the Lake District National Park Authority. Members of
the Lake District National Park have signed up to this.
The LNDPA say the government plan is acceptable ‘as long as the view is
not affected’. This is so blinkered and such a dereliction of
responsibility that it beggars belief. The view is much more than the sum
of its visible parts. To stand in wild Ennerdale or Eskdale is visceral, a
feeling of wonder and magic and wildness that transcends the purely
visible. The LDNPA, most of whom hail from the West of Cumbria have given
the thumbs up to trashing the magic and wonder of Lakeland to replace it
with a nuclear footprint that would stretch over 25km square and 1000
metres deep. Movers and shakers such as the LDNPA , Cumbria Tourism and
others appear to have been nuclearized and neutered. For example the chair
of the Lake District National Park Partnership is Lord David Clark – also
a non executive director of Sellafield while the Chair of Cumbria Tourism
is Eric Robson, also partner of Osprey Communications, PR company employed
by the geological dump government quango (the ironically named Managing
Radioactive Waste Safely Partnership) .
In future, people could well stand in the forests of wild Ennerdale and/or
Eskdale in the knowledge that beneath their feet is the worlds stockpile
of high level nuclear waste. Only the LDNPA’s perception of “view” is so
utterly superficial as to ignore what lies beneath as visceral. In any
event what lies beneath would not stay beneath as scientists say high
level waste has the capacity to percolate to the surface of Cumbria’s
leaky geology in decades.
The Forests would transpire radioactive carbon and other gases, the fresh
water would be contaminated.
For the Lake District National Park to continue to be a ‘Partner’ in this
process while the government carries out its geological disposal agenda to
its awful conclusion would be an act of neglect resulting in the worst
abuse the Lake District and Cumbria has seen.
http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/opinion/10035338.Felling_of_the_monkey_puzzle_tree_raises_questions/
http://monkeypuzzlepledge.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/monkey-puzzle-felled/
http://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/the-lake-district-brand-disowns-west-cumbria-in-a-fit-of-nuclear-madness/
http://northern-indymedia.org/articles/2612
http://www.davidsmythe.org/nuclear/ennerdale%2031oct12.pdf
National "Out of Your Tree" Week
- Vigil on the Monkey Puzzle Lawn, National Park Centre, Brockhole 29th
Nov -
Nuclear Dump under Ennerdale Forests OK - but Monkey Puzzle "spoiled view"
say Lake District National Park
contact Radiation Free Lakeland 015395 63671
http://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/nuclear-forests29th-nov-brockhole/
Radiation Free Lakeland invite people to join them at 12 noon on thursday
29th Nov at Brockhole on the Monkey Puzzle lawn to remember the Monkey
Puzzle and:
Save the Forests from Nuclear Madness!
On Thursday 29th November as part of National Tree Week Radiation Free
Lakeland will be lighting a candle for the Brockhole Monkey Puzzle to
apologise for being unable to stop the felling by a ruthless and
ultimately unaccountable National Park Authority.
Following the vigil for the Monkey Puzzle the group will don mock
biohazard suits and unfurl banners opposing the geological dumping of high
level nuclear wastes under Lakeland Forests. Wild Ennerdale along with the
Solway is one of the areas being eyed up as the nuclear dumping ground,
much of Ennerdale is in public ownership. The experience at Brockhole with
the much loved Monkey Puzzle shows that public ownership counts for
little.
Monkey Puzzle trees are a living fossil they have witnessed the birth and
death of stars and the evolution of species but the threat of their
extinction has never been so real as now. The Brockhole Monkey Puzzle is a
potent symbol of what could happen to Cumbria in the near future. The
pieces of the complex puzzle of life could be lost, the DNA of Lakeland
and Cumbria irreversibly smashed with a superior sneer and the blessing of
our movers and shakers.
Radiation Free Lakeland invite people to join them at 12 noon on thursday
29th Nov at Brockhole on the Monkey Puzzle lawn to remember the Monkey
Puzzle and:
Save the Forests from Nuclear Madness!
more info:
Ignoring the feelings of the public and advice of experts, on November
5th, the Lake District National Park Authority felled a much loved 110
year old monkey puzzle tree at Brockhole, the LDNPA centre, because they
said it “spoiled the view.” At the same time the Authority are happy to go
along with the government plan to dump high level nuclear waste under the
National Park as long as the above surface facilities are screened from
view!
The primary role of the Lake District National Park is that of watch dog.
Their remit is to protect the unique place that is Cumbria from
developments that are unacceptable. The government plan to dump high level
nuclear waste under the Lake District is the most unacceptable development
in the history of the Lake District National Park Authority. Members of
the Lake District National Park have signed up to this.
The LNDPA say the government plan is acceptable ‘as long as the view is
not affected’. This is so blinkered and such a dereliction of
responsibility that it beggars belief. The view is much more than the sum
of its visible parts. To stand in wild Ennerdale or Eskdale is visceral, a
feeling of wonder and magic and wildness that transcends the purely
visible. The LDNPA, most of whom hail from the West of Cumbria have given
the thumbs up to trashing the magic and wonder of Lakeland to replace it
with a nuclear footprint that would stretch over 25km square and 1000
metres deep. Movers and shakers such as the LDNPA , Cumbria Tourism and
others appear to have been nuclearized and neutered. For example the chair
of the Lake District National Park Partnership is Lord David Clark – also
a non executive director of Sellafield while the Chair of Cumbria Tourism
is Eric Robson, also partner of Osprey Communications, PR company employed
by the geological dump government quango (the ironically named Managing
Radioactive Waste Safely Partnership) .
In future, people could well stand in the forests of wild Ennerdale and/or
Eskdale in the knowledge that beneath their feet is the worlds stockpile
of high level nuclear waste. Only the LDNPA’s perception of “view” is so
utterly superficial as to ignore what lies beneath as visceral. In any
event what lies beneath would not stay beneath as scientists say high
level waste has the capacity to percolate to the surface of Cumbria’s
leaky geology in decades.
The Forests would transpire radioactive carbon and other gases, the fresh
water would be contaminated.
For the Lake District National Park to continue to be a ‘Partner’ in this
process while the government carries out its geological disposal agenda to
its awful conclusion would be an act of neglect resulting in the worst
abuse the Lake District and Cumbria has seen.
http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/opinion/10035338.Felling_of_the_monkey_puzzle_tree_raises_questions/
http://monkeypuzzlepledge.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/monkey-puzzle-felled/
http://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/the-lake-district-brand-disowns-west-cumbria-in-a-fit-of-nuclear-madness/
http://northern-indymedia.org/articles/2612
http://www.davidsmythe.org/nuclear/ennerdale%2031oct12.pdf
Nuclear Forests? Vigil and Demo at Brockhole, Ambleside (Cumbria) | Campaigning against the UK's addiction to nuclear power
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