On the 13th April 1999 the Environment Agency wrote with regard to the persistent hydrogen chloride breaches and asked why the plant's authorisation should not be amended to exclude PVC (which London Waste had identified as the cause of many HCl breaches). The reply was not on the public register when Greenpeace viewed it.
In December 2000 London Waste Ltd. commissioned REC Ltd. to monitor some of the pollutants emitted from its stack. They found that emissions of oxides of nitrogen from the chimney were above the authorised limit for 25 of the 26 hours monitored.
Eight out of ten people who live in the European countries which have spent nuclear fuel reprocessing contracts with Sellafield (United Kingdom) or La Hague (France) say they want the discharges of radioactive waste into the sea to be stopped and prohibited, according to a series of opinion polls commissioned by Greenpeace.
Paris, 19 June 2000 Greenpeace today released new images of the legacy of radioactive waste dumping at sea from ships. The shocking footage was taken in the Hurd Deep, in UK territorial waters just off the Channel Islands and some 15km north-west of Cap de La Hague (France).
A leaked Nuclear Energy Agency report, released today by Greenpeace, contains key evidence which supports Denmark's international initiative to end nuclear reprocessing.
"The industry's own figures prove that Denmark is right to claim that ending reprocessing immediately at Sellafield and La Hague is feasible and would stop the main sources of nuclear pollution," said Greenpeace scientist Dr Helen Wallace, "It is a scandal that this report has been kept hidden for so long."
