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Launch of sustainable cumbria plan after nirex defeat
8 April 1997
PHOTO OPPORTUNITY: 11 am, Tuesday 8th April, Gosforth Village Car Park
West Cumbria and North Lakes Friends of the Earth, and other local opponents of Nirex's failed nuclear waste dump, will launch a new report on sustainable job creation in Cumbria at 11 am on Tuesday 8th April, in the Gosforth Village Car Park (just off the A595 close to Sellafield). Gosforth village overlooks the site Nirex proposed to use for its underground nuclear waste dump.
The group will be accompanied by the twelve foot high Nirex Trojan horse, which is now used to store the mountain of paperwork comprising Nirex's flawed evidence for the public inquiry into its now defeated plans. The horse will be decorated with giant posters calling for more jobs and a more sustainable future for Cumbria and will take Nirex's evidence to the Gosforth recycling bins. Some participants will be wearing "We stopped the Nirex Dump" T-shirts.
The new Friends of the Earth report into sustainable job creation in Cumbria demonstrates that for just a fraction of the public money wasted by Nirex during its attempt to build a nuclear waste dump at Sellafield, long-term, sustainable jobs could be created in tourism,energy efficiency and off-shore renewable energy.
The FOE study, by consultants Ecotec, shows that a £20 million investment in each of the following areas would create: 200 permanent jobs in tourism plus 100 short-term construction jobs; 100 full time jobs in renewable energy and up 300 full time jobs in energy efficiency as well as cut local energy bills
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