{"id":219339,"date":"2026-01-06T08:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/219339\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:41:07","slug":"gosforth-youth-asked-to-share-views-for-nuclear-waste-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/219339\/","title":{"rendered":"Gosforth youth asked to share views for nuclear waste site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The organisation is tasked with considering the GDF proposal, as well as issuing \u00a31m of funding a year to community groups in areas earmarked as a potential site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mid Copeland is one of two sites shortlisted across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The other is in South Copeland and the search area includes the electoral divisions of Millom and Millom Without.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Mid Copeland Community Partnership said a GDF would require both a suitable site and a willing community, with processes to identify those and acquire the necessary permits set to take about 15 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The GDF design considered would see waste buried under the sea, with an overground facility on or near the coast to provide access to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The organisation is tasked with considering the GDF proposal, as well as issuing \u00a31m of funding a year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-219339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}