IN HIS article on the burial of nuclear waste in ‘an atomic dustbin’, the Mail’s environment correspondent Colin Fernandez writes: ‘To provide an incentive to hosting the dumping ground, the selected area will be given between £1 million and £2.5 million a year for community projects.’ Though this financial offer by the Government has been dismissed as a bribe by campaigners in communities that fear they may be chosen, it would provide a measure of compensation. But ministers have refused to offer similar danger money to communities along the possibly extensive transport routes from the current location of the radioactive waste, to a facility where it would be processed, and then on to the deep underground disposal facility.
Daily Mail Letters 4th Jan 2019 read more »