The UK & Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) warmly welcomes and endorses a detailed report by leading environmentalist Jonathon Porritt which outlines why, in seeking to get to ‘net zero’ carbon emissions and tackling the climate emergency, there is no need for new nuclear power stations. Jonathon Porritt is a former Chief Executive of … [Continue Reading]
NFLA All Ireland Sustainable Energy Forum welcome the transformation of the Moneypoint coal plant into a green hub and floating wind farm
The NFLA All Ireland Sustainable Energy Forum warmly welcomes the announcement that the Moneypoint coal plant in County Clare will be transformed into a new green hub and floating wind farm. This is the sort of move towards a sustainable energy future that the island of Ireland desperately needs. It also comes at a time … [Continue Reading]
NFLA supports submission to the Marine Management Organisation over dredging Hinkley Point sediment close to a disposal site at Portishead, Somerset – further investigation is urgently required
The UK & Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) have recently submitted a joint response with the Stop Hinkley group to a Marine Management Organisation consultation. This relates to an EDF Energy application to dump dredged sediment from the Hinkley Point site to a coastal site close to Portishead in Somerset. (1) This is a … [Continue Reading]
NFLA supports joint letter to NatWest / Royal Bank of Scotland calling for it to divest from investments in companies involved with nuclear weapons
The UK & Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) is one of the supporting organisations to a joint letter just issued to the NatWest / Royal Bank of Scotland Group calling for it to amend its policies around supporting investments to companies involved in the production of nuclear weapons. The Nobel Peace Laureate group the … [Continue Reading]
NFLA submits views to the Environment Agency on its generic design assessment of the proposed Bradwell B reactor – it could emit higher gaseous emissions and there are safer, renewable alternatives
The UK & Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) submits today its views on the Environment Agency consultation (1) on the next stage of Generic Design Assessment for the HPR1000 new nuclear reactor design being proposed for the Bradwell B site in Essex. The design is being put forward by the Chinese nuclear utility CGN … [Continue Reading]
NFLA agrees with Hinkley Point C Stakeholder Reference Group that the Environment Agency rejects an application that could leave to the death of 182 million fish a year in the Severn Estuary
The UK & Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) is highly alarmed with a new report to the Welsh Government that the proposed Hinkley Point C nuclear power station could kill 182 million fish a year. NFLA call on the Environment Agency to reject an application from EDF Energy which is seeking not to build … [Continue Reading]
NFLA sees UK Defence Review as seriously threatening 30 years of gradual nuclear disarmament and it opposes increase in Trident warheads
The UK & Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) note the UK Government’s publication of its Integrated Strategic Defence Review today, which seeks to pivot the UK from centralising its policy within Europe and more towards a ‘global arena’, particularly the Asia-Pacific region. Whilst NFLA will consider the report in its totality, of particular concern … [Continue Reading]
NFLA join with European, Japanese and American groups to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima disaster in special conference
The UK & Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) were delighted to cooperate with its European and Japanese partner groups, and it also welcomed American partners to a special conference which considered the state of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors, a decade after three of them melted down. A special web-based networking meeting … [Continue Reading]
NFLA publishes detailed assessment of prospects for a deep underground, partially under the Irish Sea radioactive waste repository and links with the current proposed coal mine development in West Cumbria
The UK & Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) publishes today its assessment of two possible developments being considered at the moment in West Cumbria – a deep underground and partially undersea repository to store the UK’s higher activity radioactive waste legacy; and a controversial development to build a deep underground and undersea coalmine being … [Continue Reading]
NFLA is shocked to hear that the Ministry of Defence contractors have still not sought a licence for radiation remediation work at Dalgety Bay in Fife
The Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) Scotland Forum is shocked to hear from Fife Council that the Ministry of Defence and their contractor Balfour Beatty, tasked with the clean-up and remediation of the Dalgety Bay radium-contaminated site, have still not sought a licence from the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, despite many previous assertions that they … [Continue Reading]