PROPOSED KENLY WIND FARM - CONTAMINATION UNTESTED BY SEPA This is a message to Scottish Government and Reporter Mr Alasdair Edwards.

If you are about to approve St Andrews University erecting 6 x 100 meter wind turbines on the WWII Dunino Jackdaw II second world war airfield, it is necessary for you to respond to the alerts you have been given regarding the burying of hundreds of aircraft/vehicles which have parts painted with RADIUM and where decommissioned on site in the 1940s and 1950s. So far all similar MoD sites investigated by SEPA have been found to be radioactive. Particles could be spread across UK/Europe by the thousands of tyres on the construction vehicles and cranes. http://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/contamination-test-on-site-near-rafkinloss-base-1-3024871 GROUND investigations are to begin later this month into potential radioactive contamination at a site near the former RAF base at Kinloss where hundreds of aircraft were dismantled following the Second World War. Instruments in the cockpits, which were coated with glow in the dark luminous paint containing radium, were burned and buried at the site. It was also revealed last year that the site could be contaminated by mustard gas. A land quality assessment had identified potential sulphur mustard contamination in 2004 before construction work began on a pipeline for a water treatment project. Geophysical surveys of the area have already detected the presence of material which experts believe is worthy of further investigation. Staff expect to be on site for four or five days and will wear protective clothing as a precaution. The spokesman continued: Aircraft parts disposed of as part of the dismantling process may have contained radioactive contamination in the form of luminous paint which was used on wartime planes. It is believed that chemical ordnance containing sulphur mustard may also have been buried. http://www.northern-scot.co.uk/News/Contaminated-land-investigations-at-Findhorn02082013.htm Contaminated land investigations at Findhorn INVESTIGATIONS will be carried out on duneland at Findhorn into potential contamination. Aircraft parts disposed of during the dismantling process may have contained radioactive luminous paint. It is believed that chemical ordnance containing sulphur mustard may also have been buried. Staff from Moray Councils contaminated land section will work with SEPA, digging test pits on land close to the former RAF Kinloss base, where it is believed large numbers of aircraft were broken up and buried at the end of World War II. Geophysical surveys have already detected the presence of material which merits further investigation. Staff, wearing protective clothing as a precaution, expect to be on site for four or five days later this month.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/environment/radiation-tests-at-ex-raf-airbase.21763256 Radiation tests at ex-RAF air base. Environment secretary Richard Lochhead said "There are significant areas of contaminated land, often related to industrial and military sites, across Scotland and Moray is no different. What is important is the authorities show due diligence by investigating sites and taking necessary action." Work will begin at the dunes in Findhorn on the Moray Firth Coast this month but it is understood the contamination is linked to "glow in the dark" RADIUM paint used in aircraft from the Second World War. More than 1000 aircraft are thought to have been dismantled at the Moray base after the war and instruments coated in paint containing radium were burned and buried at the base. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-23531873 Testing is to be carried out at sand dunes near to the former RAF base at Kinloss which may be contaminated by radiation. It is believed large numbers of aircraft were broken up and buried there at the end of World War II. Some of the parts may have been coated with radium-based paint, which was used to illuminate instruments. Moray Council has said ground investigation will be carried out at Findhorn this month. Geophysical surveys of duneland at Findhorn have suggested the land may be contaminated by radiation. Staff from Moray Council's contaminated land section will work alongside the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa), using protective clothing. The investigation is expected to last up to five days. Kinloss was closed as an air force base in July last year as part of the UK government's on-going programme of defence cuts. BBC Scotland's environment correspondent David Miller had revealed in May last year that RAF Kinloss was to be the focus of a new investigation into radioactive contamination. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18013143 Fishing ban in Dalgety Bay over radiation fear http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-18136765 Chemical weapon 'risk' at RAF Kinloss in Moray http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17921639 Radioactive beach risk from wartime dump 'was ignored' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-15527124

More radioactive particles found on Dalgety Bay beach http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-15327680 Answers demanded on Fife particle find http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-Environment/planning/Appeals The Directorate for Planning and Environmental Appeals (DPEA) plays an important role in the Planning Appeals system in Scotland. DPEA is responsible for the administration of over 20 different types of case work. Report reveals Dalgety risks raised 50 years ago Wed, 02/05/2012 - 17:37 SNP SNP MSP Annabelle Ewing has written to the Ministry of Defence urging ministers for an investigation into why it was not passed on a UK Cabinet report written 50 years ago, warning of the risks of radiation at sites where wartime aircraft was dumped including Dalgety Bay. The BBC says it has seen a confidential report from 1958 warning of "undesirably high levels of radiation" at sites where aircraft were broken down and stated that records should be kept and "handed on to future users of the land". Ms Ewing, SNP MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, said this raises the question as to what other information has been withheld. This report is deeply disturbing as someone knew about the potential risks at the site. I have written to the Ministry of Defence asking why, after being written in a report over half a century ago, this information was never sought out or passed on. I am urging the MoD to clarify the situation as quickly as possible and to take this matter forward to find out what other information has been withheld. Why did no-one put the interests of the people of Fife first and bring this information to light? The MoD has avoided dealing with this clean-up for over two decades and leaked emails even showed the UKs health watchdog was accused of downplaying the risks of the contamination by one of its own leading advisers. The main concern should be for the people of Fife they deserve better than this. Radium Contaminated sites recently declared by MoD HMS Daedalus, near Portsmouth: former naval air base Defence Aviation Repair Agency Gosport, Hampshire: former aircraft repair depot RAF Henlow, Bedfordshire: air base RAF Newton, Nottingham: former air base RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire: air base and former home to Red Arrows Stirling Lines, Hereford: former SAS headquarters RAF Shawbury, Shrewsbury, Shropshire: air training centre RNAS Anthorn, Cumbria: former naval air base RAF Machrihanish, Mull of Kintyre: former air base Defence Aviation Repair Agency Almondbank, Perth and Kinross: former aircraft repair depot RM Condor, Arbroath, Angus: Royal Marines base

RAF Kinloss, Forres, Morayshire: air base 2. Sites previously known to have been contaminated with radium Dalgety Bay, Fife: a former world war two aircraft base Forthside, Stirling: a former army luminising depot RAF Carlisle, Cumbria: a former military equipment deport source: Ministry of Defence RADIUM Notes Radium is highly radioactive and its decay product, RADON GAS, is also radioactive. Since radium is chemically similar to calcium, it has the potential to cause great harm by replacing calcium in bones. Exposure to radium can cause cancer and other disorders, because radium and its decay product radon emit alpha particles upon their decay, which kill and mutate cells. http://www.defencemanagement.com/news_story.asp?id=18370 https://www.dstl.gov.uk/ http://www.defencemanagement.com/feature_story.asp?id=5132 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/20/mod-radioactive-world-war-two http://www.defencemanagement.com/news_story.asp?id=15492 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-15845729 http://www.thecourier.co.uk/News/Fife/article/19788/mod-agrees-to-visit-dalgety-bayradiation-beach.html http://www.thecourier.co.uk/News/Fife/article/19089/dalgety-bay-radiation-gordonbrown-calls-for-clean-up-and-health-checks.html http://news.stv.tv/scotland/east-central/295788-who-knows-whos-liable-mod-refuseto-take-responsibility-for-dalgety-bay-radiation/ http://news.stv.tv/scotland/east-central/275062-dalgety-bay-workers-have-foundmore-radiation-on-beach-than-expected/ http://www.scotsman.com/thescotsman/environment/mod_is_given_ultimatum_over_dalgety_bay_radiation_1_197 9725 http://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/localheadlines/news_alert_dalgety_bay_radiation_sources_may_see_area_designated_a _radioactive_contaminated_land_1_1953247