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A LIFE-SAVING team has been able to purchase a frontline emergency vehicle following funding from the Mid Copeland GDF Community Partnership. Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team (WMRT) was awarded £75,497 in the first year of funding as part of the GDF programme and now the new rescue vehicle has been fully kitted out with blue lights, […]
FRANCE is among the countries making progress in developing a GDF. The French national radioactive waste management agency, Andra, submitted a construction licence application in January for its Cigéo project (Industrial Centre for Geological Disposal). This is a GDF for radioactive waste to be built at a site straddling the Meuse and Haute-Marne districts in […]
A marine geophysical survey was successfully completed off the coast of Copeland in August last year to provide data to support Nuclear Waste Services’ (NWS) assessments of the potential of deep geology to host a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF). Fiona McEvoy, Head of Geosphere Characterisation for NWS, said: “Work to date in Mid and South […]
Thanks to residents in Mid Copeland who took part in a recent survey. Between July and August 2023, a sample of 182 people living in the Mid Copeland Search Area electoral ward of Gosforth were asked questions about their awareness of the Community Partnership and geological disposal. The Community Partnership’s preference was for the researchers […]
Over 80 people attended the official opening of Thornhill’s new play park on Saturday which was provided thanks to funding from Mid Copeland GDF Community Partnership. Community Investment Funding (CIF) of £130,871 was awarded to Beckermet with Thornhill Parish Council through the Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) programme. A GDF is an underground facility designed to […]
News from Nuclear Waste Services: Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) has been engaging with the Allerdale community about the potential for hosting a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) to dispose of the UK’s most radioactive waste. As part of this process NWS obtained existing data and undertook assessments to understand if six siting factors, safety and security, […]
Data from aerial, and other environmental surveys will help NWS understand an area’s suitability to host a GDF. Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) will begin marine aerial surveys in Mid and South Copeland, and Theddlethorpe once a month during daylight hours, from October to March 2024. These aerial surveys will provide NWS with information on the […]
A new youth centre, lifesaving workshops, two play parks and a transformed community hall are just some of the projects awarded funding from the GDF programme. Mid Copeland GDF Community Partnership has so far awarded over £650,000 in Community Investment Funding to local projects during its second year, as the area takes part in […]
Youngsters are enjoying Calderbridge play area thanks to a revamp which includes four new pieces of equipment. Funding of £47,918 was awarded through Calderbridge and Ponsonby Parish Council from the Mid Copeland GDF Community Partnership – as the area takes part in the search for a suitable site for a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF). […]
Beckermet Reading Rooms has been awarded a total of £267,930 from the Mid Copeland GDF Community Partnership, as the area takes part in the search for a suitable site for a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF). As part of the GDF programme, the Community Investment Funding was awarded in years 1 and 2, for a […]
THE village play park in Beckermet has been transformed following a successful funding application to the Mid Copeland GDF Community Partnership. Community Investment Funding of £84,838 was awarded to Beckermet with Thornhill Parish Council to revamp the play area with new equipment last year. The work was completed earlier this year and an official […]
A News Release from Nuclear Waste Services (NWS): Nuclear Waste Services is holding a series of drop-in events in Copeland to continue the conversation about what a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) could mean in the local area. A GDF is an underground facility designed to safely, securely and permanently dispose of higher activity radioactive waste. […]
People living in the Mid Copeland Search Area will have their GDF News delivered this week. This printed newsletter provides residents with information on geological disposal and the work of the Mid Copeland GDF Community Partnership. You can also read this issue here: MC_Issue_2_2023. This edition includes a jobs and skills focus and details of […]
MIKE Slater, of Beckermet, is the Mid Copeland GDF Community Partnership’s Farming Lead. His role will be to feed information back to the farming community from the GDF process and about Community Partnership work, facilitate discussions and encourage two-way communication. Mike grew up in Middletown, Lowside Quarter. He then lived at Thornhill for 15 years […]
A FREE bus service, cinema, food outlets, sports teams and sheltered youth area are just some of the ideas young people said were important to them as part of the Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) process. A group of 25, aged 12-16, have been giving their views around what a GDF could mean for the Mid […]