Category: Sellafield

Sanctuary….

October 6, 2019

“Just as we enjoy the sanctuary of our own homes, so the gulls are safe inside their territories, which are formed entirely for the purpose of mating and the subsequent rearing of a family. The territorial boundaries, so real to the birds, are invisible to us…But if we could seem them, they would look rather … More Sanctuary….

“ugly and unstable:” page 14 of Beeches, Boreholes and Badgers

April 27, 2016

19th May 1996 Been lying awake thinking about the beeches.  I rang up the Chair of the ‘Special Planning Board’ in charge of the decision to fell and the conversation goes something like this: me: why fell all the trees when your own report says only half should be felled? Chair: by felling half, the … More “ugly and unstable:” page 14 of Beeches, Boreholes and Badgers

Rusland in Spring, 20 miles away from Sellafield as the crow flies: Page 12 of Beeches, Boreholes and Badgers

April 14, 2016

May 3rd 1996 Bluebells interspersed with my favourite – wood sorrel. Young leaves on the beech above form a lacy green canopy full of light for the spring flowers. There is a rumour that half of the beeches are to be felled for ‘safety’ reasons. they look healthy to me.

Sleepy villages and nuclear waste from around the world: page 11 of Beeches, Boreholes and Badgers

April 7, 2016

From The Westmorland Gazette February 9th 1996 KAREN BARDEN’S PEOPLE All passion spent at sleepy Cleator Moor He pulled at his charcoal chequered cardigan and coughed. Clarity was needed. Not a professional inquiry animal, this was only his second and he was fighting bully boy nerves. Day 62 of the investigation into Nirex plans for … More Sleepy villages and nuclear waste from around the world: page 11 of Beeches, Boreholes and Badgers