LOCAL MSP Kenneth Gibson has been told at the Scottish Parliament that there are no plans to take nuclear waste to Hunterston.
Following claims by local Labour politicians that government policy was to creata a dump for radioactive material on the Ayrshire site Mr Gibson put a question to Parliament.
Richard Lochhead , Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment stated: 'It is really important to recognise that neither the Scottish Government nor the NDA plans to create a single facility for the storage of all radioactive waste generated in central and southern Scotland. The Scottish Government's policy is clear: higher activity radioactive waste should be stored as near as possible to the site at which it was produced. Again, the NDA will release in due course details of its policy on storage in that part of Scotland.' Mr Gibson said that Labour should stop scaremongering about nuclear waste dumping at Hunterston.
Full statement and page of letters in the Largs & Millport Weekly News of July 13.
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