Cumbria Is Kazakhstan!
Nobody who has spent time trying to extract money & support - be it never so modest - from one of the quangos charged with overseeing our county's development will be at all surprised by this story . Regional development bureaucracy is a nightmare from which Cumbrians are trying to wake up.
On a more positive note, a local entrepreneur has offered hisunfeasibly water-logged iron ore mine as a suitable home for our county's splendid collection of high-level radioactive waste.
Correct your maps!
On a more positive note, a local entrepreneur has offered his
Correct your maps!
posted by Nick at 7:11 pm
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Heh, i worked at the Heritage Centre at Florence Mine about 3 years ago, we went down into it occasionally - it was still operational at the time, and tours would go down. Parts are suprisingly spacious and the place is vast when you take into account every shaft (there are between 4 to 6 i believe), and it could feasibly be converted (parts of it were bone dry when they had the pumps running at full whack. A couple of problems i would want considered are the effect it'd have on tourism - radioactive waste is a bit of a turn-off, and how do we get rid of the radioactive clouds that will appear when Egremont inevitably decides to cave in again.
Interesting people you have up there. If the first lot had brains they would be dangerous. The second lot have no brains – and they are dangerous as well!
Don't get me started on the Northwest regional development agency!! They gave out a 12 page free paper with The Observer this week on Northern Culture- 2 paragraphs were about Cumbria.
and if Cumbria is Kazakhstan then maybe Sacha Baron-Cohen would like to come along to Whitehaven dressed as Borat and join the 'mosque' debate.
Gill - judging by the antics of the BNP in West cumbria we could do with some of Baron-Cohen's brand of anti-racism . .
Oh, and Rick, I share your concerns about the dangers of a radioactive, subsidence-prone Egremont . . . tell us more about your time in Flo . . .
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