{"id":891,"date":"2018-12-10T08:41:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T08:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/?p=891"},"modified":"2018-12-10T08:41:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T08:41:56","slug":"countering-capenhurst-end-of-year-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"Countering Capenhurst \u2013 End of Year 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

To fully appreciate why we need to focus upon what goes on at Capenhurst, just focus for a while upon the climate changing aspects of Uranium mining, and the issue of land rights within those regions. <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is just one example of how these issues are being challenged: – <\/span><\/span>Aboriginal Elders Face Off with Uranium Mining Co. in the Australian Outback<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

They need our support !<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nukiller Sites – News Round Up.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Moorside.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The BIG NEWS<\/span><\/span><\/strong> is that Toshiba has decided to pull out of the project to build a <\/span><\/span><\/strong>new reactor at Moorside.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Now Read on:-<\/strong><\/p>\n

WE DID IT (MAYBE?) DID WE JUST STOP\u00a0MOORSIDE?<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sizewell.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

While there is still a danger that a new reactor might be build at Suffolk.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

So here is the\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Petition Against the Building of SIZEWELL C on the Suffolk Coast<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Windscale, Springfields, Fracking, and Hex.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Following on from the event we held outside of the Springfields plant on the 61st<\/sup> anniversary of the Windscale fire<\/a>, there has been a lot on the press about the Fracking sites in the area. <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet very little has been published about the Hex in the plant, and how it is transport along country lanes from Capenhurst.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Now Private Eye has broken the silence: – <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

‘It has taken some doing but at last a national media outlet has exposed the close proximity of fracking operations on the Fylde to the UKs nuclear fuel site, \u2018Springfields\u2019.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rossing Uranium Mine.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The RTZ Rossing Uranium Mine<\/a> in Namibia will be very familiar to anyone who was active in an earlier age while campaigning against Apartheid. <\/span><\/span>While the activities of the company have been the subject of Shareholders actions by <\/span><\/span>Partizans (People against Rio Tinto and its Subsidiaries).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In November the company announced that it will sell its remaining 60% ownership in the mine to the <\/span>China National Uranium Corporation Limited.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

News In Brief<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cumbrian Transport<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tyson H Burridge<\/a> provide:-\u00a0 ‘General Haulage, Hazardous Waste Transportation, Warehousing & Commercial Vehicle Maintenance Services throughout Cumbria and the UK’.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

One of their vehicles was recently spotted inside the Capenhurst site. <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Civil Nukiller police.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Chief Constable of the CNC [ Civil Nukiller police ] is to depart next year<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hinkley.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Stop Hinkley Campaign Newsletter [ December 2018 ]<\/span><\/span><\/strong> is online now<\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

AWE Waste to Cumbria.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) plan to send up to 5,000 barrels of Higher Activity Waste to Sellafield<\/a> for treatment and storage. <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Anniversaries and <\/span><\/span><\/span>Forthcoming Events<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Fukushima Day.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Kick Nuclear will be holding an evening vigil outside of the Japanese Embassy on Friday March 8th, and a march on Saturday March 16th<\/sup>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The full details will shortly be posted upon the Kick Nuclear Website<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

April 26th<\/sup> \u2013 Chernobyl Day <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

On Saturday April 27th<\/sup> SNNA will be holding an event outside of the Springfields plant.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Torness \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Next may it will be the 40 anniversary of the Torness Occupation.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Aside from marking this as the last major anti-nukiller action on a now completed green field site,<\/a> it might also worth while making the point about this is now a dangerously ageing reactor.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

October 10<\/span><\/span>th<\/span><\/span><\/sup> – <\/span><\/span><\/sup>62 years since the Windscale Fire.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

We will be organising another event to mark this anniversary. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Details about this will be announced next year.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Other Events<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

If anyone wishes to join us on any of our regular leafleting sessions about nukiller waste trains, or wants a speaker on any aspect of the dangers inherent with the use of nukiller power, then please let us know.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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To fully appreciate why we need to focus upon what goes on at Capenhurst, just focus for a while upon the climate changing aspects of Uranium mining, and the issue of land rights within those regions. This is just one example of how these issues are being challenged: – Aboriginal Elders Face Off with Uranium … Continue reading Countering Capenhurst \u2013 End of Year 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-countering-capenhurst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}