Toxic Scottish Salmon Goes Nuclear Like the Simpsons!

Toxic Scottish Salmon Goes Nuclear Like the Simpsons – Bakkafrost applies to pharm salmon slap bang next to Hunterston nuclear power station. D'OH!
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— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 15, 2023

The Scottish salmon farming industry – staggering from one crisis to another – is now scraping the very bottom of the toxic barrel by seeking to expand in the contaminated waters and land around Hunterston nuclear power station!

Locals have raised concerns about proximity of the development to the nuclear effluent pipe and potential for radioactive cesium and tritium to enter food chain and/or creation of low level radioactive waste during filtration processes.

$camon $cotland visited the proposed site chosen by Bakkafrost Scotland (The Scottish Salmon Company) last week (7 February 2023):

"Setting up shop next to a nuclear power station is the only way Scottish salmon could ever be green," said Don Staniford, Director of $camon $cotland. "Salmon farming is such a toxic industry that even the nuclear industry may not want Bakkafrost as a noxious neighbour. Nuclear power and salmon farming is a marriage made in hell. If this radioactive proposal gets the green light, shoppers should be on the look out for glow in the dark Scottish salmon with three heads lurking at the back of their fridge. Scottish salmon is pharmed and dangerous and should be avoided like the proverbial plague."

Location drawnings submitted by Bakkafrost Scotland to North Ayrshire Council last month show the proposed site location slap bang next to Hunterston nuclear power station.

Download as a PDF online here

A letter to Fairlie Community Council last month (19 January 2023) from planning and development consultants McInally outlines the proposal and details public meetings on 1 and 30 March 2023 as well as an "online public exhibition webpage" accessible from 1 March to 6 April 2023:

Download letter as a PDF online here

Here's the Proposal of Application Notice submitted by Bakkafrost Scotland to North Ayrshire Council on 19 January 2023:

Download as a PDF online here

Bakkafrost Scotland have published documents on their website online here

Bakkafrost Scotland's 'project timeline' for Hunterston includes:

Hunterston nuclear power station has been leaking radioactive wastes for decades. The Sunday Herald reported in 2009:

The Daily Record reported in 2010:

The Ferret reported in 2019:

The issue of radioactive Scottish salmon is as long-lived as Technetium-99 and other contaminants. Greenpeace reported back in May 2003:

BBC News reported in June 2003:

The farming of fish at the Hunterston nuclear power station site would not be the first time the toxic fish farming industry has floated the crazy idea. Back in the 1970s, an "innovative marine fish farm at Hunterston" used warm water from the nuclear power station to rear turbot, Dover sole, sea bass and halibut. The fish farm at Hunterston nuclear power station still shows up on 'Scotland's Aquaculture' database with Scottish Sea Farms (Norskott Havbruk) named as the operator:

The Hunterston fish farm was registered by Norwegian salmon farming giant Scottish Sea Farms in 1981 with a site location close to Bakkafrost's proposed salmon farm:

A report published by the White Fish Authority's 'Market Development Unit' in 1975 included:

There's video footage of the nuclear fish farming operation from a Scottish Television broadcast in the 1970s online here

The wee girl forced to appear in the promotional film looks decidedly unimpressed at the potentially radioative glow-in-the-dark farmed fish.

The scene is eerily familiar to the PR stunt pulled in 1990 when John Gummer – then Minister of Agriculture – fed his 4 year old daughter Cordelia a beef burger at the height of the BSE crisis:

It's not known if Heather Jones is the wee girl in the 1970s promotional video or if she's eaten way too much pharmed salmon (contaminated with cancer-causing PCBs and dioxins) that the toxins have addled her brain but her judgment seems decidedly off – as iffy as three month old Scottish salmon left in the back of the fridge – in this propaganda piece for Peel Ports published in 2021: