Cemaes Bay Heritage Centre and Cafe

The refurbished heritage centre and cafe are now open for business.
See the start of the works in post for 31 Jan.

Opening weekend includes 'dress like a pirate'.

Refurbished Cemaes Heritage Centre and cafe

Spring Scillas in Flower

The spring flowering scillas are beginning to show - but sleet and snow with cold nights forecast!
The blue sheen on the grass always looks great on the cliff paths.

Felin Honey Bees

http://www.felinhoneybees.com/index.html

https://www.facebook.com/felin.honeybees

38 degrees campaign against Moorside

Thank you for all the campaigning and letters sent to Stop Moorside.

NuGen the developers have put a double page advertorial in every Cumbrian newspaper advertising the CONsultation which starts on 16th May.

https://mariannewildart.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/moorside-consultation.jpg

On behalf of Radiation Free Lakeland I have lodged a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority regarding the fantastical claim that the proposed Moorside nuclear plant would provide 7% of the UKs energy.

It would be fantastic if the ASA recieved lots of complaints on this lie :NuGen’s Moorside Project aims to provide approximately 7% of the UK’s current energy requirement…

Government ministers, never mind the public, are genuinely confused about the scale of nuclear energy and this has been no accident. The confusion between energy-power-electricity has been going on for years, always in nuclear's favour.

NuGen's claim that Moorside will produce 7% of the UKs energy is what it is - a lie. Nuclear reactors have generated only about 3 .6 % of UK energy demand over recent years. Nuclear reactors worldwide only produce 2.4 % of global energy.  These percentage energy figures do / does not reach the media because the major energy organisations don't want to give the game away.  Sometimes the energy content of uranium fuel is compared with renewable electricity output. However, this comparison is wrong, making nuclear look three times bigger than it is because nuclear power stations are only about 35% thermally efficient.

Independent Energy Consultant Neil Crumpton states that: “Nuclear supporters may be surprised, if not shocked, to hear that nuclear reactors produce such a small percentage of UK and global energy demand. Nuclear energy is widely portrayed as a significant and crucial technology in the battle against climate change. Yet it is just a dangerous, complex and unnecessary technology with a tiny 2.4 % energy output now and facing major limitations for even reaching 3 % in the future”. Neil Crumpton is a member of the DECC-NGO Nuclear Forum representing People Against Wylfa B

Please send complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority

http://www.asa.org.uk/Consumers/How-to-complain.aspx

References:

Advertising: Moorside Nuclear Power Plant

Media: Newspaper - Westmorland Gazette date 16th April - and other printed media in Cumbria

Company: NuGen

Here is some more info...

Nuclear power only represents about 2.4 % of global ENERGY supply, officially termed 'final energy demand'. Nuclear energy (mostly electricity) output was around 2,461 TWh/y in 2012 and global final energy demand was 104,400 TWh/y in 2012 (8,979 mega-tonnes of oil equivalent pr 'mtoe' x 11.63 TWh per mtoe) see pages 16 and page 30 in IEA's Key World Energy Stats 2014 : http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/KeyWorld2014.pdf. Nuclear output will not have changed much since then and has fallen from a high of around 2,700 TWh/y around ten years ago.

With Best Wishes

Marianne

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-moorside-biggest-nuclear-development-in-europe

Demolition at Cafnan Farnyard

The remaining farm buildings have now been demolished.

 Cafnan farm buildings destroyed by Horizon Nuclear Power.

Another Building to be demolished -

Soon to be demolished.

DO NOT PICK WILD FLOWERS!!!

Please do not pick wild flowers. And especially then don't drop them on the car park and leave them behind!!!

Fishing from beach at Porth yr Ogof

Usually fishing takes place from the rocks. Today a group were fishing from the shore.

Fishing at Port yr Ogof

Sunset at Cemlyn

Sunset looking from Cemlyn towards The Skerries, Anglesey

New Wind Turbine

New wind turbine erected to west of the proposed nuclear power station.

New Litter Bin at Wylfa

The green wheelie bin that has served as a litter bin at the car park serving Wylfa Head Nature Trail and Nature Reserve has had its green wheelie bin replaced by a proper bin. Very smart. 

Continued Work at Tre'r Gof

Decommissioning Health and Safety Reports

Links to Health and Safety Reports about decommissioning of Wylfa.
Just found this link.
I'm amused by the disconnect that goes on between the decommissioning of the present (old) power station and the construction of the new one.
For instance, the statements about the setting of Castell Gardens. After decommissioning it is said that the setting of the gardens will be improved.

It obviously is not part of this report to consider how the setting will change with the construction of a new station between the gardens and the old station!

New Pylon Designs

New pylon designs - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32225276

Cemaes Roundabouts in Bloom

Great spring flower displays all around Cemaes.

No Consent Needed to Store Nuclear Waste

The Guardian reports last vote of present Parliament that takes away the right to public consent to store nuclear waste. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/05/law-changed-so-nuclear-waste-dumps-can-be-forced-on-local-communities

Environmental Work at Tre'r Gof

Cutting back gorse and trees at Tre'r Gof.

I Saw No Sea

The mist obliterated the view of the sea today.
This is the old coastguard lookout hut at the top of Wylfa Head.

Wylfa Head look out.
I saw no see today.

Brilliant Gorse

Bright yellow splashes all around, gorse, daffodils, primroses...

Removing Gorse and New Fencing at Tre'r Gof

Working to remove gorse and mend fencing at Tre'r Gof marsh.

Bright Day at Cemlyn

A really nice bright spring day walking west from Cemlyn.
Passing swallows heading east and north along the coast, meadow pipits and terns returning fo rthe summer.

Men at Work at Tre'r Gof

Work started this week to clear vegetation at the wet lands. Men at Work.