Protestors gathered outside East Lindsey District Council offices in Horncastle to support two motions being discussed at Full Council regarding proposals for a nuclear dump near Louth.
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00:00Well, it's great news that East Lindsay District Council are pulling out of the nuclear waste
00:10project, the nuclear dump. They're not going to take part in it anymore. That's terrific
00:14news. But what we want is for them to stand with the residents and say that they now object
00:21to it and call on Lincolnshire County Council to pull out. If we can get Lincolnshire County
00:27Council to pull out, it stops completely. And that's what we want.
00:31They've got two motions that you're putting forward to the council today.
00:38Is that the message that you're sending to them?
00:41Yes. East Lindsay needs to ask Lincolnshire County Council to pull out. And second, we want
00:47compensation from nuclear waste services. We've got a talented team here at East Lindsay, good
00:52leadership. They spent a considerable amount of time in good faith on this project. It's been
00:58frankly a disaster. And now we want to be compensated properly for it.
01:03So how many communities would be affected if this went ahead?
01:08Well, there were eight nuclear waste services events in each of the communities. So it's
01:13between eight and 10 communities. They can't sell their houses. They're stuck. It's no good
01:18investing because of all the uncertainty. So it's been a terrible impact on a second community
01:25because this happened four years ago in Fettlethorpe. And now they've moved from a 67 acre brownfield
01:31site to 1,000 acres they've identified in the middle of the countryside and farmland.
01:39And that's what you're fighting for?
01:40That's what we're fighting for.