ARREST          MONBIOT 

Today George Monbiot honoured an invitation to speak at Preston New Road, the site where folks concerned about the health of this and future generations have been campaigning to stop fracking.  By all accounts George lived up to his reputation as environmental guru and delivered a rousing speech to a rapt audience about hope, community, health and the natural world. 

 

It was an opportunity also an opportunity for George to promote his new book "Out of the Wreckage." The Guardian review comments:

" the thrill and danger of a new left politics With neoliberalism in crisis, it’s time to emphasise the importance to people of belonging and co-operation, argues this optimistic call to action"

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All good stuff and Monbiot argues that no one would mind paying extra taxes for a good transport system that benefits the commons.  This is unarguable.  Preston New Road (PNR) would have been a good opportunity for Monbiot to point to the one industry, located at the end of that same road, that has retained its social contract, that has always required the public purse being constantly forced wide open and the very last farthings being shaken out.  The nuclear industry cannot survive without public money, it never has and it never will.  In effect the good folk of Preston New Road are paying to be poisoned.  The nuclear industry's social contract is vicious and nasty and the ongoing damage is intergenerational.  Nuclear is the antithesis of all hope, belonging and co-operation.

 

But by sweet little lies of omission the good folk of Preston New Road were not told of Monbiot's hard work in aggressive public relations  for new and more dangerous nuclear fuels to come out of the Springfields Nuclear Fuel plant situated at the end of PNR.  The protestors are spitting distance from Springfields nuclear emergency zone.  There are some signs nearby on the Lancaster Canal giving contradictory advice should canal users hear the Springfields siren: 

LEAVE THE AREA AS FAST AS YOU CAN

...and....

GO INSIDE, CLOSE ALL DOORS AND WINDOWS AND TUNE INTO THE RADIO FOR ADVICE.

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There you go ....not dangerous at all then.

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The last thing the nuclear industry and its supporters want is to alert and alarm good folks into protecting their land from the terrible and longlived cocktail of nuclear wastes going into the River Ribble, Clifton Marsh landfill

and the air from the manufacture of nuclear fuel.  Once that fuel is burnt in reactors the cocktail of radioactive wastes becomes even more dangerous and after going to Sellafield in Cumbria for reprocessing, some of the crapola returns to PNR's Springfields Nuclear Fuel plant for further processing and further releases to water, river, sea and air.

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Here is a sample of the radionuclides going into Clifton Marsh Landfill:

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