Nuclear-Free Future Walk - London to Geneva - Apr-Jul 2008
dv | 10.01.2008 11:09 | Faslane | Anti-militarism | Climate Chaos | Ecology | London | South Coast
Following on from this year's successful 900-mile Nuclear-Free Future Walk from Dublin to London, organised by Footprints for Peace, the same group will be staging another this year from London to Geneva, through France. The UK stretch will go from London to Portsmouth, starting on 26 April, the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
Help us tell Gordon Brown and the EU: NUCLEAR POWER IS NOT A SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE OR ENERGY SECURITY
Help us tell Gordon Brown and the EU: NUCLEAR POWER IS NOT A SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE OR ENERGY SECURITY
For details on this year’s walk from London to Geneva, go to:
http://footprintsforpeace.tripod.com/E08/EW/NFFWindex.htm
For details of last year’s walk from Dublin to London, go to:
http://peacehq.tripod.com/peacehq_2007/act/000016/act000016-000.html
The walk will aim to raise awareness of the issues surrounding all aspects of the nuclear industry, from uranium mining on sacred aboriginal land in Australia to nuclear power, nuclear contamination and waste, the devastation caused by the use of 'depleted' uranium (DU) weapons in places like Iraq and Kosovo, and the dangers of nuclear weapons proliferation.
Last year's walk was joined by a man who worked for the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria for seventeen years, before walking out due to safety concerns. He had some horrific tales to tell about gross negligence and corruption by British Nuclear Fuels plc (BNFL), who operate the site. He has recently been diagnosed with a form of cancer rare for someone of his age, and has been given just a few years to live by doctors. He is looking into taking legal action against BNFL.
We also heard how communities on the east coast of Ireland have been devastated by fallout from Britain's worst nuclear disaster to date, the fire at Windscale (on the current Sellafield site) - which commemorated its fiftieth anniversary last year - and how in affected areas the rates of cancer and Down's syndrome far exceed the national average.
We heard how the Irish Sea contains more manmade radioactive material than any other sea in the world, due to nuclear waste dumped there by the UK.
We heard how communities in Scotland and the north of England and Wales are still suffering economic damage from fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster over twenty years ago, and how a similar disaster could happen in Britain because of flooding of nuclear power stations in coastal areas due to rising sea levels and more extreme weather conditions as a result of global warming.
We heard how beaches in Cumbria have been closed for years due to plutonium particles found on the sand.
We heard about the childhood leukaemia clusters in western Scotland, near the 'depleted' uranium test range at Dundrennan, near Kircudbright - data which the British government has been doing everything in its power to suppress.
Help us tell Gordon Brown and the EU: NUCLEAR POWER IS NOT A SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE OR ENERGY SECURITY
http://footprintsforpeace.tripod.com/E08/EW/NFFWindex.htm For details of last year’s walk from Dublin to London, go to:
http://peacehq.tripod.com/peacehq_2007/act/000016/act000016-000.html The walk will aim to raise awareness of the issues surrounding all aspects of the nuclear industry, from uranium mining on sacred aboriginal land in Australia to nuclear power, nuclear contamination and waste, the devastation caused by the use of 'depleted' uranium (DU) weapons in places like Iraq and Kosovo, and the dangers of nuclear weapons proliferation.
Last year's walk was joined by a man who worked for the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria for seventeen years, before walking out due to safety concerns. He had some horrific tales to tell about gross negligence and corruption by British Nuclear Fuels plc (BNFL), who operate the site. He has recently been diagnosed with a form of cancer rare for someone of his age, and has been given just a few years to live by doctors. He is looking into taking legal action against BNFL.
We also heard how communities on the east coast of Ireland have been devastated by fallout from Britain's worst nuclear disaster to date, the fire at Windscale (on the current Sellafield site) - which commemorated its fiftieth anniversary last year - and how in affected areas the rates of cancer and Down's syndrome far exceed the national average.
We heard how the Irish Sea contains more manmade radioactive material than any other sea in the world, due to nuclear waste dumped there by the UK.
We heard how communities in Scotland and the north of England and Wales are still suffering economic damage from fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster over twenty years ago, and how a similar disaster could happen in Britain because of flooding of nuclear power stations in coastal areas due to rising sea levels and more extreme weather conditions as a result of global warming.
We heard how beaches in Cumbria have been closed for years due to plutonium particles found on the sand.
We heard about the childhood leukaemia clusters in western Scotland, near the 'depleted' uranium test range at Dundrennan, near Kircudbright - data which the British government has been doing everything in its power to suppress.
Help us tell Gordon Brown and the EU: NUCLEAR POWER IS NOT A SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE OR ENERGY SECURITY
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