Jack Cunningham

Background

Cunningham was the Labour MP for Copeland until 2005, when he stood down at the General Election. Copeland is the constituency that includes the controversial nuclear plant at Sellafield. For a time Cunningham was President of the "Friends of Sellafield Society."

During his time in Parliament he was one of the most vocal pro-nuclear MPs. Lists as one of his most important achievements as an MP as "Leading the campaign to safeguard the future of Sellafield and the 16,000 jobs it sustains". [1]

He was made a life peer and is now Lord Cunningham of Feling.

Anti-Wind

In 1997, Friends of the Earth reported how "Dr Jack Cunningham MP, Secretary of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, is actively opposing two wind farms being proposed within his constituency on the grounds of visual intrusion despite the presence of Britain's largest nuclear facility, British Nuclear Fuels Ltd at Sellafield, only a few miles away. [2]