The UK environment agency yesterday gave the official go-ahead for the Sellafield plant, owned by British nuclear fuels, to put to death a further 600 residents of England’s Lake District on top of the 2700 people who may already have died or be dying as a direct result of the plant’s operation.
The decision, enabling the company to continue to release deadly Krypton 85 gas, was taken despite the fact that the company was officially ordered to cease the practice as long as 27 years ago, and despite the fact that the government’s own advisors have estimated that the gas causes up to 100 cancers a year. The move was described by the UK envronment minister Elliot Morley as, “a common sense decision for everyone concerned, which proves New Labour’s Environmental comittment.”
