West Cumbria Mining have just published their annual report and it makes for interesting reading.
The much vaunted “local” company funded by EMR Capital based in the Cayman Islands have made their staff (not the directors) redundant, the office in Haywards Heath has closed, the secretive owner is prepared to stand the cost until the end of the planning process and a third party funder has been located who says they are prepared to fund development (Whatever that development is as No one has had sight of the latest licence applications from WCM)
The accounts (1.3) note that there is material doubt about the future…
However, Mark Kirkbride CEO of West Cumbria Mining has already smoothly moved into the more lucrative game of Geological Disposal – otherwise known as the plan to dump heat generating nuclear wastes deep underground. Kirkbride is now the key advisor at the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management providing costings for government for a hole of much larger proportions than the coal mine. Kirkbride Cost for opening a coal mine £160Million – Kirkbride Cost for opening a hole for Geological Nuclear Dump – £1.7 BILLION.
Image Copeland “Search Area” for GDF – overlaid with West Cumbria Mining’s coal mine plan – who in their right mind would think of putting a deep nuclear dump anywhere within the same area as a coal mine? The Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy have appointed Mark Kirkbride CEO of West Cumbria Mining to advise them on their deep nuclear dump plan. Both plans – coal and deep nuclear dump are beyond reckoning.
Four Days on from sending out this info to press and not one press outlet has raised so much as an eyebrow – West Cumbria Mining has spent literally £millions on public relations and lobbying the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy but now the first thing to go to “cut costs’ are the West Cumbria Mining office staff.
Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole 
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Coal and Nuclear Hand in Hand in Cumbria as West Cumbria Mining lay off staff in readiness for next venture – a GDF ??
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Four Days on from sending out this info to press and not one press outlet has raised so much as an eyebrow – West Cumbria Mining has spent literally £millions on public relations and lobbying the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy but now the first thing to go to “cut costs’ are the West Cumbria Mining office staff.
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