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The government/nuclear industry have recently changed the law so they can dump low-level nuclear waste in Kings Cliffe, Northamptonshire. 250 000 tonnes per year to start with, consisting mostly of building materials from decommissioned power stations.

The site is run by a private outfit called Augean and if successful they would be the first in the country to do this. Otherwise it's essentially the same scheme that Thatcher tried with NIREX in the '80s.

Our County Council did the right thing and decided unanimously to reject the planning application in March, 2010. The chairman of the Development Control Committee said the scheme was crazy.

However Augean appealed against that decision and this led to a five week Public Inquiry which ended in November.

While the planning inspector wrote up his report of the Inquiry we held a legal referendum in the surrounding villages in April, 2011. The turnout was very respectable (higher than general elections) and the result was a stonking 98% against the dump.

When the report came out in May it was a complete whitewash and Eric Pickles (the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government) gave the go-ahead for the dump in spite of his espoused belief in localism.

The local campaign group Waste Watchers (of which I am a member) have in turn launched a legal challenge against Pickles' decision at the High Court in July. We do not have the resources of the nuclear industry and although we would like to challenge on many grounds, this would involve a large number of experts who we'd have to pay for if we lose. So we have focused our case on a narrow point of law that the decision did not take into account its future effect on extensions and use of the site. Even with this cheaper point we have to raise £30 000.

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