IN 1958 a newspaper announced to the people of Gloucestershire that come the year 2000, we would all be looking at free electricity from Berkeley nuclear power station. What foul propaganda.

This is how it was presented. Even now, after Fukushima, deals are still going ahead with an international corporation from France at Hinkley and Oldbury.

Lydney council was informed a year ago that Berkeley power station has been granted planning permission to store low-level nuclear waste, with no public consultation with the people of the Forest of Dean. Obscene you would think being one mile from town.

What is the international legal distance nuclear waste can be stored from homes? One mile? Who makes such decisions, I wonder?

Last week planning consent was sought to store medium level nuclear waste at Berkeley, also with no public consultation.

Never lose sight of the cancer clusters and increased infertility in our region. Have a look, go along to your local library, the staff are always helpful.

What emergency provision has the Forest of Dean District council put in place in the event of an accident at Berkeley or Oldbury? Where is our annual evacuation drill?

How much have our subsidised nuclear power plants cost in every sense of the word up to date? Nobody knows.

Well done boys for clinching such a lucrative contract, at the expense of our grandchildren and generations beyond. One fifth of all power produced on this island is sufficient for domestic needs.

Four fifths go to computer servers and other spurious industries.

We need to take a close look as to where all this power is actually going, before we build more nuclear power plants. One argument is to prop up the colossal energy demands of computer servers, some of which we have become dependent on, including me, unfortunately. However dependency is no solution short or long term, Self-reliance at a small community level is where to start.

Every day the people of Fukushima dream of being able to sit in their gardens, but it will stay a dream for thousands of years to come.

Question your district council leader Patrick Molyneux and your MP Mark Harper about this invisible attack on the human race.

The no-go zone in Japan would mop up Gloucester, Cheltenham, Bristol and Newport.

Nuclear power represents three per cent in real terms, of all the power produced in this country, so why bother with it?

On You-Tube, you will find many reports of contamination from Fuku­shima all over North America, found in the rain, in the soil, in the sea, the same here, I don't even like to walk in the rain anymore.

Nuclear power depends entirely on thousands of years of environmental, economic and social stability. No stability can equal a very dirty bomb. Just look how unstable nations are right now.

Why are planning laws stacked against wind turbines but not against nuclear power?

These people poison the earth, with the law behind them, yet are never accountable.

Offshore wind turbines could occupy many, that is, if we make them here in Britain.

For example Rolls Royce and British Aerospace in Bristol, would corner the market in the finest wind turbines on the planet, ranging from domestic to village to offshore demands, Mabey's are already doing meaningful work, of which we need more!

– Robin Larkham, Woolaston.