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Seismic blasting in Irish Sea for nuclear waste dump will be devastating to marine life
In a little-known project, the government’s Nuclear Waste Services is to blast undersea seismic airguns off the Cumbria coast this summer in the name of ‘scientific research’ – paid for at public expense. LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports
High sea batter the coast by an old farmhouse near the Village of Allonby in Cumbria
ANDY McDONALD MP says Labour must show it is capable of delivering real improvements in people’s lives — bold action is required
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
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France Insoumise MP JEROME LEGAVRE speaks to Christophe Domec on building the Europe-wide peace movement that came together in the International Conference Against War last weekend
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
IMAGINE being subjected to ear-shattering blasts every 10 seconds, 24 hours a day for four straight weeks? By any metric, that would qualify as the most appalling form of torture.
But that is exactly what is about to be inflicted on whales, dolphins, seals and other marine creatures in the Irish Sea if a new wave of opposition cannot stop it.
The Irish Sea is already the most radioactive sea in the world, in large part a result of decades of radioactive discharges from the Sellafield reprocessing facility on the Cumbrian shoreline.
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