A proposal to repurpose a site near Louth for nuclear waste storage has been scrapped.
The update comes as part of a long-running and controversial saga, where Nuclear Waste Services are seeking sites for a new Geological Disposal Facility, which would involve burying radioactive waste under the North Sea via a tunnel entrance.
Following significant public outcry and length debates, resulting in Lincolnshire County Council voting to withdraw from Nuclear Waste Services’ Community Partnership – killing plans to store nuclear waste in the county.
New council Leader, Councillor Sean Matthews, said: “To everyone who was worried about these plans, I’m proud to say that you can now rest easy. We’re out of the community partnership and the nuclear nightmare is over. We have listened. We have acted. We have done what we said we would.”
Councillor Matthews continued: “Residents have been very vocal about not wanting this to happen. They have been trying to get someone, anyone, to listen to them about the very natural fears they had around this plan. Well, the new council is listening.
“On day one as leader of the Reform UK group on Lincolnshire County Council I started the necessary democratic process that has led us to today’s decision. Following this process to the letter means that we can be sure the entire sorry saga won’t drag on for even longer.
“Although the idea is now dead and buried, I don’t want to take the credit for ending this nightmare. The credit must go to Travis Hesketh, Mike Crookes and the team who campaigned, on behalf of their neighbours and friends, against a nuclear waste plan that plunged their community into uncertainty.
“Now, Lincolnshire people can get back to living their lives, assured that this nuclear nonsense is over.”
(Image: Nuclear Waste Services)
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