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Camden "Super Virus" Lab consortium start exploratory work at site

Stop Camden Animal Lab | 21.02.2009 01:34 | Animal Liberation | Bio-technology | Social Struggles | South Coast | World

There are plans to build a high level virus containment facility and animal testing lab on a Camden council house estate Somers Town, alongside St Pancras International behind the British Library. The lab has been criticised by MI5, MPs, councillors and local people. Foot & Mouth disease was leaked from similar govt facility Pirbright in Surrey. Exploratory works have begun this week at the site.

The Camden New Journal has said that the consortium behind the lab have begun exploratory works at the Brill Place site this week.

The CNJ also says in an editorial comment that the land would be used for building homes and communtiy facilities, as would the second site owned by the consortium at Hampstead Road close to the DDU.

There are 15,000 people on ahousing waiting list in Camden and only 25,000 council homes. This week the CNJ announced that more council homes are being sold off.

The backers behind the controversial and reviled virus lab are the MRC, UCL, CRUK and the Wellcome Trust who have put in £100 million.

The government has made a staement this week that no ctas, no dogs and no primates [includes humans] will be tested on at the lab.

For more details you can see the statement on the petition site at :  http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BLISS-Lab

Contact Camden Council to oppose planning permission at :
Camden Town Hall
Judd Street
Camden
London
WC1

The consortium have said that are "in dialogue with the community" however there are still many local people who do not know abou tthe lab and many people feel that they have not been consulted or informed properly. The only people that the consortium have spoken to are the Somers Town Peoples Forum while other community groups and leaders have not been included.

Stop Camden Animal Lab
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Stop Camden Animal Lab
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We meant to say that the "land SHOULD be used " for homes not "would"

21.02.2009 02:14

Sorry about the grammer error

S C A L


We meant to say that the "land SHOULD be used " for homes not "would"

21.02.2009 02:14

Sorry about the grammer error

S C A L


We meant to say that the "land SHOULD be used " for homes not "would"

21.02.2009 02:14

Sorry about the grammer error

S C A L


Grammatical error...we meant to write that the land SHOULD be used for homes not

21.02.2009 02:21

Sorry about the grammatical error...we meant to write that the land SHOULD be used for homes / would be better used for homes rather than "would be used for homes".

Apologies for this.


the petition is still open at  http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BLISS-Lab

Stop Camden Animal Lab
- Homepage: http://www.myspace.com/stopcamdenanimallab


There is still the question of virus leak

21.02.2009 02:47

Foot and Mouth disease was leaked into the water supply from Pirbright in Surrey....this sin't the only such disaster.

Virus


The lab consortium will NOT be building homes or community facilties..

21.02.2009 02:56

They have stated that they will not be building any homes or community facilites whatsoever.

Lee


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