But, we need to buy backhoes, fencing and build the remaining infra-structure required to permanently protect the land and create a viable eco-tourism facility.

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Lynn Berger, who runs the Woolpack Inn near Boot in the Eskdale Valley, is more concerned about the effect of "scaremongering" on tourism than the facility itself.

BBC: Cumbria

The government, keen to attract volunteers, rather than impose the proposal on an unwilling area, has promised certain benefits, such as money for tourism marketing and clean-up, for any council which agreed to accept the storage facility.

BBC: Cumbria