17 June 2013
On Friday at Carlisle Crown Court Sellafield was fined £700,000 for
dumping several bags of intermediate and low level waste in ordinary
landfill. The bags were plastic and lay broken in the same landfill
used
for composting and recycling. The fine is meaningless. The public
will be
picking up the tab. The only meaningful fine would be a ban on
Sellafield
dumping ANY radioactive waste in ANY landfill. The media and
especially
the BBC have consistently played this down and no media commentators
have
made the points that
A. the public will be picking up the tab
B. the deregulatory “exempt” law allows radioactive waste into
landfill in
the first place
C. there is no guarantee that this was an isolated incident.
