tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post6458553566321667376..comments2023-12-09T07:21:51.160+00:00Comments on The Druid: Fighting for Anglesey: Wylfagrad B, Leanne Wood, and Political Cowardice.Paul Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01021606156107333019noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-61060872248791579852012-05-07T13:37:37.034+01:002012-05-07T13:37:37.034+01:00There is one remedy to the energy problem.
PULL T...There is one remedy to the energy problem.<br /><br />PULL THE PLUG AND LIVE AS OUR FORE- FATHERS DID, WERE ALL DYING OF OVERINDULGENCE FORCED ON USE AS I IS. <br /><br />Who needs this ridiculous unsustainable quality of life anyway?Had enoughnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-56328144952103570942012-05-06T21:48:34.042+01:002012-05-06T21:48:34.042+01:00Reuters are reporting a source "with knowledg...Reuters are reporting a source "with knowledge of the deals" as saying there are 5 interested parties Russia (Rosatom), Chinese, US and Middle East investors. With the 'prize' going to whoever will get it built first!mairede thomasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-44129577740412527622012-05-06T21:10:06.736+01:002012-05-06T21:10:06.736+01:00BBC Wales tonight:-
http://tinyurl.com/d83zfycBBC Wales tonight:-<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/d83zfycAn Eye On...https://www.blogger.com/profile/08811559231632281053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-62384471976781261042012-05-03T11:08:47.070+01:002012-05-03T11:08:47.070+01:00Some people seem to hate Wind Turbines but are the...Some people seem to hate Wind Turbines but are they capable of this kind of damage to humanity?<br /><br /> There are homes full of the most grossly deformed children we have ever seen in the history of paediatrics [...] all around Chernobyl. This is new in the history of medicine.<br /><br />http://enenews.com/pediatrician-homes-full-grossly-deformed-children-history-pediatrics-all-around-chernobyl-videoJohnJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-66723453057773935792012-04-29T23:09:45.354+01:002012-04-29T23:09:45.354+01:00So very, very, sad, it speaks for itself!
http://...So very, very, sad, it speaks for itself!<br /><br />http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/04/how-contaminated-a-bird-is-in-fukushima/JohnJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-33624096334583081062012-04-28T20:17:43.148+01:002012-04-28T20:17:43.148+01:00Just come across this:
Dr. Sternglass said the can...Just come across this:<br />Dr. Sternglass said the cancer rate for children ages 5 to 9 was very low BEFORE 1945, one case in 10,000, even in states such as Texas that have high rates of chemical pollution because of the oil and gas industry. The rate has since climbed to 100 in 10,000, "overwhelming evidence" of the link between childhood cancer and radiation, he said.<br /><br />http://www.state.nv.us/nucwaste/news2001/nn11105.htm<br /><br />My question is this; why would any SANE person or Political Party want Nuclear Power in the energy mix? and in so doing expose the whole population and the world to cancer?<br />Whatever else Leanne Wood stands for in this one thing alone (anti-nuclear) she stands Head and Shoulders above the main political parties.<br />On independence for Wales,I would think that is unlikely!!!JohnJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-38981926591307603672012-04-28T14:22:09.692+01:002012-04-28T14:22:09.692+01:00http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2...http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2012/04/28/llangefni-biomass-plant-faces-rejection-55578-30855852/<br /><br />Also: One of my neighbours has been refused planning permission for a wind turbine (50-60ft high) on the grounds that it will interfere with the new RAF Valley radar facility. Apparently he is 1/2 a kilometer within the exclusion zone (10km - going by google maps) - so it would appear that any turbines over 50-60ft tall and within 10Km of Valley airfield will most likely be refused planning permission.PromoWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-49742180890060347322012-04-28T00:19:07.975+01:002012-04-28T00:19:07.975+01:00So the other day we were told that energy island n...So the other day we were told that energy island needed to train up our youngsters for Wylfa B now £4m is awarded to retrain the existing workers to become social workers etc, You couldnt dream it up, But hey up it will keep a few gobshites in work or is that wearing out chair leather!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-86307646095391524422012-04-27T21:57:57.943+01:002012-04-27T21:57:57.943+01:00"mairede thomas"
I know of no-one who c..."mairede thomas"<br /><br />I know of no-one who could put it better.<br /><br />The subject is not rocket science, so what do the IOACC planning officers think their playing at?<br /><br />If these applications are departures, why aren't they been thrown out? or is that a silly question to ask?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-67675164039909484132012-04-27T21:31:38.815+01:002012-04-27T21:31:38.815+01:00LEST WE FORGET:
http://www.thenation.com/blog/1675...LEST WE FORGET:<br />http://www.thenation.com/blog/167593/legacy-chernobylJohnJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-76413437648299913792012-04-27T21:11:28.486+01:002012-04-27T21:11:28.486+01:00The following, taken from the Welsh Planning Inspe...The following, taken from the Welsh Planning Inspectorate’s evidence to WAG’s Environment and Sustainability Committee Inquiry into Energy Policy and Planning in Wales, is perfectly clear:-<br /><br />“While each planning application has to be determined on its merits, the starting point for any determination is the policies of the Development Plan, providing one has been adopted and it contains policies that are relevant to the proposal. Section 38(6) of the 2004 Planning and Compensation Act requires the decision maker to determine the application in accordance with the Development Plan unless material considerations indicate otherwise.<br /><br />Other important material considerations will of course include national policy, as set out in Planning Policy Wales and the relevant Technical Advice Notes, including TAN8, and ministerial interim planning policy statements (MIPPS). As inspectors act on behalf of the Minister they would normally seek to make their decision in accordance with national policies, unless there are other considerations of substantial weight that would justify a departure from national policies in the particular circumstances of the case.<br /><br />TAN8 is supportive of small community renewable energy schemes of less than 5MW subject to their meeting normal planning criteria. It indicates that larger schemes for wind turbines (over 25MW) should be concentrated in 7 Strategic Search Areas (SSAs). However it also indicates that local authorities may wish to consider proposals on land outside but adjoining SSAs, providing there is a suitably robust case and there are no planning constraints.”<br /><br />So it is very simple;-<br /><br />1. Anglesey is not a SSA.<br /> <br />2. Anglesey’s Adopted Development Plan is also perfectly clear and explicit in its policies which are completely relevant to wind turbine development.<br /><br />3. The Supplementary Planning Guidance is by definition ‘supplementary’ and cannot change the adopted Plan, merely elaborate it so as to offer guidance to developers and others.<br /><br />4. As far as I am aware none of the current applications that are larger than microgeneration size is for a “community” scheme. <br /><br />5. Many of the applications do not meet normal planning criteria and/or are “departures” from the adopted Development Plan. <br /><br />This is why some people are surprised by the applications and the way they have been handled.mairede thomasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-48392960388925761572012-04-27T20:30:02.309+01:002012-04-27T20:30:02.309+01:00"Revelations from yesterdays meeting of the E..."Revelations from yesterdays meeting of the Environmental Scrutiny Committee" <br /><br />I was there. Cllr Durkin a member of the Committee referring to Tan 8. Highlighting, Anglesey does not have a SSA and accordingly. "Outside the SSA's the Tan indicates that there may be potential for wind farm schemes of up to 25MW on urban / brown field sites and for smaller community based wind farms schemes.<br /><br />The TAN indicates that most areas outside SSAs should remain free of large wind power schemes and that regard should be had to the potential cumulative effect of small proposals. <br /><br />It will be interesting how the Planning Committee deal with the application in front of them next Wednesday for two Wind Turbines in open countryside which Officers are recommending approval.One who was therenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-3331199467553548342012-04-27T20:03:53.560+01:002012-04-27T20:03:53.560+01:00Well it is true that radioactivity readings in Sno...Well it is true that radioactivity readings in Snowdonia were high in the late 1940s and 1950s. That's because there was a lot of nuclear testing going on in the atmosphere at the time . Eventually fall-out does come to earth and it does so particularly in areas of high rainfall - which,as we know, is what Snowdonia is.<br /><br />There really wasn't much of a problem as far as Transwfynydd was concerned - although the lake became slightly radioactive because the water was constantly being recycled through the power station. Yes, the good folk of Trawsfynydd were all issued with tablets to take if anything went wrong - but nothing serious did.<br /><br />Chernobyl was different. A massive cloud of radioactivity was discharged into the atmosphere over a period of several days. We should salute the - now dead - Russian helicopter crews who dropped lead onto the fire to contain the discharge. We should condemn the UK Governmenet and the Met Office who steadfastly refused to make public any information as to where the radioactive cloud was - even though there were prevailing eastern winds at the time .<br /><br />In fact it took over a week for the Russian radioactive cloud to arrive over Wales - unbeknown to the people directly beneath it. Another day or so and the worst of it would have been out over the Atlantic. ....But it North East Wales and in Ffestiniog - it rained. The rest is history. <br /><br />The moral of the story is that nuclear fall-out can get to you even if you don't have a single nuclear power station in your country.Richard Sletzernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-78035239532682092402012-04-27T14:38:27.712+01:002012-04-27T14:38:27.712+01:00Revelations from yesterdays meeting of the Environ...Revelations from yesterdays meeting of the Environmental Scrutiny meeting, that not one of the countless Wind Turbines application applied for to IOACC, comply with Welsh Assemble Policy has sent the council officers scurrying back to the drawing board scratching their heads.<br /><br />Can anyone one else at the meeting confirm this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-85300387073731989912012-04-27T14:03:09.378+01:002012-04-27T14:03:09.378+01:00JohnJ, yes, the idea that parts of Snowdonia were ...JohnJ, yes, the idea that parts of Snowdonia were already contaminated above today's "unsafe" levels pre Chernobyl, presumably largely courtesy of Windscale/Sellafield, and that nobody had actually noticed, has occurred to a few people. Kind of hard to prove now though. Not impossible, but hard.<br /><br />Stories like yours, if it could be backed up, would make interesting reading.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-1706093292367095502012-04-26T23:02:50.103+01:002012-04-26T23:02:50.103+01:00Title: Chernobyl tragedy: the last “gift” from the...Title: Chernobyl tragedy: the last “gift” from the Soviet regime<br />Source: Voice of Russia<br />Author: Dmitry Konchalovsky<br />Date: Apr 26, 2012<br /><br /> Exactly 26 years ago there was an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Whole regions in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus have become unfit for life, and the number of victims has reached one million people today. And experts are still disputing about long-term consequences of the disaster.<br /><br /> [...] its consequences are endless and uncontrollable, and it is impossible to count the exact number of victims. Scientists are still arguing if the number of one million deaths is valid, but when such big numbers are taken into account, the one thing is absolutely clear – things are in a bad way. Besides, no one can count how many babies could not be born, and on the lives of how many subsequent generations this disaster will tell in the form of cancer.<br />........................................<br /><br />Has anyone else heard the story about a farmer in one of the contaminated area's in North Wales after Chernobyl when the ministry came to check his sheep.<br />The ministry came to check the lambs for radiation and found that they did not meet the safety standards and so he was not allowed to sell them. It came to the farmer's mind would they also check a lamb that he had had in the freezer from the previous year.They did and found that it was contaminated as well!JohnJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-39338136855402974892012-04-26T10:02:18.299+01:002012-04-26T10:02:18.299+01:00The Moscow Times said:
'But it remains to be ...The Moscow Times said:<br /><br />'But it remains to be seen whether the British market will accept Rosatom, being a Russian company with a checkered history — a senior executive was arrested last July on embezzlement charges.'<br /><br />They'll feel right at home on Anglesey, then!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-38736472443236491892012-04-26T08:54:26.607+01:002012-04-26T08:54:26.607+01:00Here's a very interesting link:
http://www.bel...Here's a very interesting link:<br />http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2012/nikitin_chernobylfukushima?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter<br /><br />Exert:<br /> Today's safety problems at Russian nuclear power plants lie not only in the technological aspects of plant operation. Russia problems of corruption, theivery and negelct of Standards and regulationsare of direct concern to nuclear power plant safety. Some 15 managers of various levels were fired from Rosatom in 2011 and some 35 were sent packing for the same reason in 2010. Corruption and disregard for standards and regultions resultedJohnJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-70749897427940348122012-04-25T23:02:02.136+01:002012-04-25T23:02:02.136+01:00Ultimately, everybody dies of heart failure.
It&...Ultimately, everybody dies of heart failure.<br /><br />It's the cause of it that counts.An Eye On...https://www.blogger.com/profile/08811559231632281053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-1480992636419298752012-04-25T13:15:10.093+01:002012-04-25T13:15:10.093+01:00A study, conducted by the French health research b...A study, conducted by the French health research body INSERM, found that between 2002 and 2007, 14 children under the age of 15 living in a 5-kilometre radius of France’s 19 nuclear power plants had been diagnosed with leukemia.<br /><br />This is double the rate of the rest of the country, where a total of 2,753 cases were diagnosed in the same period<br /><br />“This is a result which has been checked thoroughly and which is statistically significant,” said Dominique Laurier, head of the epidemiology research laboratory at France’s nuclear safety research body (IRSN<br /><br />http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/11/child-leukaemia-doubles-near-french-nuclear-plants-study/<br /><br />Some people still think smoking does not damage your health!JohnJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-80518642638051572762012-04-25T09:20:33.694+01:002012-04-25T09:20:33.694+01:00Hmmmm. I think we need to be wary of S4C reports o...Hmmmm. I think we need to be wary of S4C reports of "Cancer Clusters near Wylfa" and allegations of "high cancer deaths in Mid Wales".<br /><br />We can all pluck isolated statistics out of thin air and draw misleading conclusions from them.<br /><br />For example the area with the highest death rate in England and Wales is Bryncethin in Bridgend, with 1,499 deaths per 100,000 population - but those figures tell us nothing.<br /><br />We do know that death rates are linked to lifestyle more than anything else. Rotten diets, heavy drinking, smoking and poor genes are the major factors. <br /><br />As for cancer, well, after heart/circulatory diseases, it's the second most common cause of death so "cancer clusters" are pretty meaningless - unless, that is, you are a tv current affairs producer trying fill a programme.Richard Sletzernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-54724633023509477872012-04-24T21:46:48.922+01:002012-04-24T21:46:48.922+01:00Thank you Paul for posting that. I understand that...Thank you Paul for posting that. I understand that it is very controversial and many will deny a link.<br />Sincerely,<br />JohnJJohnJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-55377419982626078312012-04-24T21:35:06.270+01:002012-04-24T21:35:06.270+01:00Guardians of the soil????????
Cancer cluster down...Guardians of the soil????????<br /><br />Cancer cluster downwind of Wylfa<br /><br /> Welsh-language TV channel S4C has reported new evidence of a cancer cluster near the nuclear power stations at Wylfa in Wales.<br /> Commissioned by S4C, Professor Chris Busby analysed official data for cancer deaths, showing a statistically significant 58% increase in female breast cancer and 50% increased lung cancer in men downwind of the two Magnox reactors, which began production in 1971.<br /><br />http://www.llrc.org/epidemiology/subtopic/amlwchdec2011.htm<br /><br />Here in Mid Wales cancer is high lots of my school friends have already died from various forms of cancer in their late 30's,40's,50's, and 60's.<br /> By contrast lots of people living into their 90's those who were born in the 1915-20's.<br />Cancer death seems to be more prevalent with those born from the late 1940's onwards.<br /> I don't know but when lots of these people were growing up,(including myself) there was lots of Nuclear weapons testing going on (1950's) and long lasting radioisotopes released, Plutonium has a half life of 24,000 years.<br /> Also Mid Wales is in a Nort-West line from Trawsfynnydd.<br /> I may be completely wrong but cant help but start to join the dots!JohnJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-37697627674374825652012-04-24T19:56:11.711+01:002012-04-24T19:56:11.711+01:00Anon, there's similar figures to that in The ...Anon, there's similar figures to that in The Economist.An Eye On...https://www.blogger.com/profile/08811559231632281053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130000348899973408.post-14145560178524327782012-04-24T19:41:48.633+01:002012-04-24T19:41:48.633+01:00Where's your source, Mairede?
Does it date to...Where's your source, Mairede?<br /><br />Does it date to before or after Fukushima?<br /><br />I found one that says 63 under construction, but 2 of those were in Japan and presumably aren't happening any more (though the source claims its info is accurate as of 30 March 2012).<br /><br />Of the rest, 26 are in China and 10 in the Russian Federation, or read it yourself...<br /><br />http://www.euronuclear.org/info/encyclopedia/n/nuclear-power-plant-world-wide.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com