Campaign against nuclear waste dumpIn 1997, on the day the general election was announced, the people of West Cumbria won a great victory against NIREX , the arm of the nuclear industry charged with solving the waste problem. John Gummer, Secretary of State for the Environment announced the refusal of planning consent for their planned Rock Laboratory, preparatory to excavating a hole in the ground to bury nuclear waste.
The Coalition Government really doesn't 'get it'. They could be addressing both the economic and the environmental crises at the same time if they adopted the kind of policies that we've set out in our 'Green New Deal' (Caroline Lucas MP).
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