Sacred Earth Walk: November 2010

Sunday, 21 November 2010

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You are invited to join me for a Candlelit vigil and walk on each FULL MOON

NEXT WALK: CANCELLED FOR THE TIME BEING - SEE ABOVE

I start at the EdF (Électricité de France) Offices King Square, Bridgwater, Somerset, England at 1.30pm

keeping vigil until 2pm

when I will leave to walk the 9 miles-ish

from Bridgwater Town Centre to the gates of Hinkley A and B Nuclear Power Stations,

next to the land of the proposed Hinkley C new Nuclear build.

I aim to reach here by 6pm and

hold a candlelit vigil into the evening

Please bring candles jars
poetry, readings

messages of hope, prayers, wool, beautiful things
to decorate the fence

And your Heart

Next Full moons:

19 January 2011

18 February 2011

19 March 2011

NO MORE NUCLEAR POWER

http://stophinkley.org/
http://stophinkley.org/
http://stopnuclearpower.blogspot.com/
http://www.wise-uranium.org/
http://www.cadu.org.uk/intro.htm
http://www.ecofem.org/

I see the road to the gates lined with candles

I am called to this walk. To remember the reverence, respect and spiritual connection to the land that the Ancient Ones knew in their heart and in their soul.

I am called to Hold Connection to the land. To hold the vision of how it looks now, that not only will it stay untouched, but that the Oaks and trees will grow larger, will multiply.

To remember that no one, no business, no corporation can own the land. To remember that this is Ancestral Land, where the water spring, remembered only by a mark on a map as St Sativolia's Well, that nourished those that went before us.Those who buried their dead at Pixies and Wick Mounds. Those who had no wish to dominate Mother Nature or Creation and saw themselves as care takers of the earth, mindful of the future and future generations.

December's Moon is also known as the ROWAN MOON. It's influential energy provides protection from harmful influences, increased intuition, insights and visions. A Vitality and Spiritual Strength and tenacity - a refusal to give up.

NO MORE NUCLEAR

EDF has submitted an application for preliminary works seeking permission to destroy over 430 acres of Somerset countryside. This is before any permission to actually build a nuclear power station has been given.

If the build goes ahead, Hinkley C would be the biggest building site in Europe for the next 12 or more years.

They want to fill in the valley and flatten the land. Cut down the trees and hedgerows. Re-route streams. Remove the cliffs and put in a sea wall. Build a 1km long jetty out to sea.

They have already evicted all badgers from the site.

EDF say they will restore the site to its original state if it fails to get permission to build Hinkley C, a new nuclear power station.

This is clearly impossible.

The proposed Hinkley C coastline is part of the Bridgwater Bay Site of Scientific Interest. It is considered of International importance under the Ramsar convention. The site also borders Special Protection Areas, Special Areas of Conservation, a National Nature Reserve.

Follow links for more details.

I believe sustainable renewable options are the way to go, with local, micro production. Plus, simply using less energy.

It is irresponsible to leave nuclear waste for future generations to deal with – there are no plans for its safe deposal.

Hinkley C along with Finland’s new build at Olkiluoto, would be the biggest Nuclear Power Station in the World.

£76 Billion plus is currently being spent by taxpayers to decommission Britain’s Nuclear Power Stations and Weapons.

Nuclear Power stations produce the nuclear isotopes that make nuclear weapons.

Breast cancer rates are 50% above national average in Burnham on Sea, according to one study.

Nuclear Waste would be kept on site at HInkley C for at least 160 years, no one knows what would then happen to it.

Sea Levels are rising and all Nuclear Power Stations are built on the coast.The site is surrounded by a flood plain.

985,000 dead as a result of Chernobyl... Hinkley C design has similar problems.

Uranium mining pollutes the earth, air and water. It is dangerous dirty and damaging and causes cancers, birth defects and infant mortality. Also lung, eye, skin and reproductive illnesses.

There have been over 900 International Nuclear Events – that is, accidents of varying levels, over approx 20 years. Humans make mistakes.

Depleted Uranium is used in conventional warheads. It is polluting the earth air and water where it is used, ie Afganistan and Iraq and causing cancers, illness and birth defects.

Nuclear power is not carbon free and it is not sustainable.

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Sunday, 21 November 2010

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