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| Cumbria nuclear waste: Councillors 'intimidated', says peer | Cumbria nuclear waste: Councillors 'intimidated', says peer |
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| Allegations that Cumbria county councillors faced intimidation from anti-nuclear protesters may need to be looked at by police, energy minister Baroness Verma has said. | |
| Last week, the council voted against the latest stage in the development of the waste facility. | Last week, the council voted against the latest stage in the development of the waste facility. |
| A Tory peer claimed he had seen a "chilling" email saying anti-nuclear campaigners should "scare" councillors. | A Tory peer claimed he had seen a "chilling" email saying anti-nuclear campaigners should "scare" councillors. |
| Baroness Verma said she would look "very carefully" at the allegations. | |
| Cumbria had volunteered to consider housing nuclear waste in an underground storage facility, but the plan was vetoed by Cumbria County Council. | |
| Lord Jenkin of Roding, a former minister, said he had obtained a copy of an email that was "inadvertently" sent to a Copeland councillor. | |
| He said it referred to a plan to "scare the crap" out of councillors by informing them they might be "personally liable" for reckless decisions. | He said it referred to a plan to "scare the crap" out of councillors by informing them they might be "personally liable" for reckless decisions. |
| Three Cumbria councils voted on whether to proceed to the next stage in the process of investigating whether an underground nuclear waste store would be possible - and safe - in the county. | |
| Although Copeland Borough Council voted in favour, Cumbria County Council ruled out Allerdale Borough and then also vetoed a move to this "Stage 4" for Copeland Borough. | |
| Lord Jenkin said: "I am very worried indeed about how the Cumbria County Council councillors were persuaded to vote against moving to the next stage of the nuclear waste consultation." | |
| "Is this any way to treat a serious government consultation?" | |
| Lady Verma asked Lord Jenkin to forward her the email so her officials could examine it in more detail. | Lady Verma asked Lord Jenkin to forward her the email so her officials could examine it in more detail. |
| "I do know that passions were raised on both sides of the argument in Cumbria, but that is right and proper and a proper democratic process," she said. | |
| But the minister added: "I will look very carefully and if it is something that I need to raise further and it looks like intimidation, I will take it as a matter for perhaps the police to look at." | |
| Britain needs to find a site for the long-term underground disposal of high-level radioactive waste. | |
| With some of it staying dangerous for up to 100,000 years, the government's agreed solution is to bury it - permanently. | With some of it staying dangerous for up to 100,000 years, the government's agreed solution is to bury it - permanently. |