A PROPOSAL to build a nuclear power station within a few miles of the Lake District is being met with mounting opposition.
Objectors to the bid by German company RWEnpower claim the plant would blight the lives of people living close to the site at Kirksanton near Millom.
At a public meeting on Tuesday to gauge local reaction to the plan, residents expressed a range of concerns, including health fears and the potential damage to tourism, cultural heritage and the landscape.
Afterwards, local objector Margaret Cumming said: “I moved to Kirksanton from Kendal to enjoy the area’s peace and tranquility and unspoilt , safe rural way of life. We have a special close-knit community here which would be destroyed forever. A nuclear power station would also massively affect tourism in the area and the Western Lake District as a whole.”
For more on this story see today's Westmorland Gazette.
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