"NO" TO NUCLEAR WASTE IN CORNWALL

4.00.00pm GMT Thu 8th Jan 2009

Stephen Gilbert, the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary candidate for St Austell & Newquay, said "My view is very simple, the Government could never offer Cornwall enough money for me to believe that we should be used as the dumping ground for Britain's nuclear waste. The County Council Lib Dem Executive was right to reject the idea in the first place and now needs to throw it out again."

Stephen Gilbert was speaking after hearing the news that some members of Cornwall County Council want the authority to re-consider the decision to bid to store nuclear waste in Cornwall.

Stephen Gilbert added: "Cornwall has fought long and hard to develop its reputation as being at the forefront of the green revolution, with great local food producers, new technologies and a growing environmental tourism sector. We must not put this reputation at risk."