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A new Chair has been appointed to the Mid Copeland GDF Community Partnership. Andy Pratt has become the Chair after Mark Cullinan stepped down from the interim role at a meeting of the Partnership on July 4. Andy, from Holmrook, is married with three children. He runs a milk delivery business and has done for […]
Mid Copeland GDF Community Partnership is holding a series of events to talk about what a Geological Disposal Facility could mean – with experts answering questions on the subjects which matter most to local people. Following feedback from three weeks of drop-ins held in March, these larger scale events will focus on the areas people […]
Welcome to the second newsletter from the Mid Copeland GDF Community Partnership. In this edition we’ll let you know about some larger scale events next week and provide feedback from the March drop-ins. We also have information on becoming a member, plus some questions and answers around marine surveys which will be carried out off […]
Surveys are due to take place off the coast of Mid and South Copeland for around three – four weeks this summer between July and August to deepen understanding about the nature of the deep rocks beyond the coast. This is part of the work required within the siting process for the underground elements of […]
Seascale BMX Pump Track – awarded £47,801 One of the first projects to be awarded a grant through the Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) Programme’s Community Investment Funding is Seascale BMX Pump Track. The well-used local facility was built 13 years ago through public fundraising and has attracted a lot of children and young people […]
Three community projects have been awarded grant funding as their area takes part in the search for a suitable site to build a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF). In a first for West Cumbria – and nationally – over £65,000 of Community Investment Funding has been awarded to local initiatives from the GDF Programme. Formation […]
Welcome to the first newsletter from the Mid Copeland GDF Community Partnership. In this edition we’ll introduce you to our members so far and provide details of our GDF drop-in events which continue over the next two weeks. We also have all the information you’ll need about the £1million Community Investment Funding – which has […]
A series of drop-in events will allow people to hear more about what a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) is and what it could mean for the area. They are being held by the Mid Copeland GDF Community Partnership over three weeks in March around the Search Area – which includes the electoral wards of Gosforth […]
Formation of a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) Community Partnership in Mid Copeland has given access to £1million investment funding. Bids and enquiries for local projects have been coming in since the Mid Copeland GDF Community Partnership was launched in November last year. The Partnership was the first to be formed in the country to take […]
A Community Partnership has formed in Copeland to take forward discussions around geological disposal. Following decisions from Copeland Borough Council and Radioactive Waste Management (RWM) to form two Community Partnerships in Copeland, the first – in Mid Copeland – has now launched. The second proposed Community Partnership – in South Copeland – will be […]
Welcome to the November edition of the Copeland GDF Working Group newsletter. A Community Partnership has now formed in Copeland to take forward the work we began a year ago and which now gives access to £1million investment funding. The Mid Copeland GDF Community Partnership has its own Search Area which includes the electoral wards […]
A question which regularly comes up in discussions with the Working Group is what are the different ‘areas’ and ‘sites’ that are talked about in the Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) siting process. This information sheet is to help explain the different terms used and in which part of the siting process they are relevant. What […]
Copeland GDF Working Group has been working towards identifying Search Area(s) for further consideration in the search for suitable sites to host a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF). A GDF is an underground facility designed to safely and securely dispose of higher activity radioactive waste. A Search Area is the geographical area on land within […]
What is a GDF? A Geological Disposal Facility, or GDF, is an underground facility designed to safely and securely dispose of radioactive waste. It involves building a series of specially designed and engineered vaults and tunnels deep underground at a depth of between 200 and 1000 metres. It could potentially be three times deeper than […]
Welcome to the September edition of the Copeland GDF Working Group newsletter. Today we present our proposals for the formation of two Community Partnerships in Copeland to take forward the work we began 11 months ago. We also bring you a report and photographs from our 10-venue public exhibition roadshow over 14 days earlier this […]