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These news and opinion items are gathered by National Wind Watch in its noncommercial educational effort to help keep readers informed about developments related to industrial wind energy. They do not necessarily reflect the opinions of National Wind Watch. They are the products of and owned by the organizations or individuals noted and are shared here according to “fair use” and “fair dealing” provisions of copyright law.


September 12, 2023 • WalesPrint storyE-mail story

Energy plan would “desecrate Montgomeryshire”

Montgomeryshire is being urged to “stand up” against the shock news that an energy giant wants to carve through the old county with a pylon corridor linking a proposed windfarm near Cefn Coch with the National Grid in Shropshire. The group that successfully fought a similar plan 12 years ago – Montgomeryshire Against Pylons (MAP) – is readying itself for another fight after Bute Energy’s shock announcement last week. MAP said that the current proposals “will affect our area forever . . . Complete story »


September 9, 2023 • WalesPrint storyE-mail story

Locals at war with plan to blight Welsh hills with giant wind turbines and pylons

High above a sweeping valley that cuts through a majestic stretch of Welsh countryside, a buzzard’s wings caress the warm, thermal breeze. On the ground below, other feathers have been ruffled – by plans to build ‘monstrous’ 700ft hillside wind turbines that could tower as high as The Shard near locals’ homes. The proposed wind power development, which is set to include a zig-zagging 60-mile line of pylons carrying the energy generated by the turbines, is tearing communities apart and . . . Complete story »


July 17, 2023 • WalesPrint storyE-mail story

‘Quality issues’ raise concerns about controversial wind turbine project

Campaigners have drawn attention to the fact that serious “quality issues” have been identified in the type of wind turbines specified in a company’s planning application to build an energy park in the Valleys. There are concerns about the visual impact of the project on the landscape. Siemens, which manufactures the turbines, discovered in January that there were major problems with some of its onshore turbine components, particularly rotor blades and bearings. In late June the group reported that the . . . Complete story »


July 6, 2023 • Wales, Print storyE-mail story

Plans for ‘mega’ wind turbines at rural beauty spot in North Wales have been dropped

An energy firm has dropped plans for giant wind turbines in a rural beauty spot in North Wales. Cardiff-based Bute Energy wanted to build an “energy park” on the hills between Betws yn Rhos, Llangernyw and Llanfair TH. There was huge concern locally about the proposals with claims the tip heights could be taller than the 207-metre Great Orme, Llandudno – making them amongst the largest ever built onshore. Each turbine would have a rotor diameter slightly longer than the . . . Complete story »


June 27, 2023 • WalesPrint storyE-mail story

Charity makes formal complaint about ‘misleading’ claims made by energy company

An energy group with controversial plans to build a network of wind farms across Wales has been accused of publishing misleading claims about the project. The countryside charity CPRW has made a formal complaint to the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) about statements made by companies in the Bute Energy Group on their websites.. CPRW opposes what it sees as the despoilation of Wales’ landscape by wind turbines and prefers offshore renewable energy projects instead. In a letter to the ASA, . . . Complete story »


June 24, 2023 • WalesPrint storyE-mail story

Fears raised over environmental impact of ‘disproportionate’ wind-farm substation

Plans for a wind-farm substation has sparked fears over the loss of agricultural land and that a rural village will end up “semi-industrial”. Both Denbighshire and Conwy councils have written to Mona Offshore Wind Farm Ltd over concerns about a 107-turbine wind farm planned off the coast of North Wales – with the underground cables coming to shore around Llanddulas and Abergele. The substation is planned for land south of Glascoed Road, Cefn Meiriadog, with a second option further east . . . Complete story »


June 17, 2023 • WalesPrint storyE-mail story

Locals organise to oppose massive wind farm project

A community has vowed to fight proposals for a windfarm consisting of a new generation of wind turbines so large they will dwarf the UK’s biggest buildings. Protests have already taken place over proposals to create the UK’s highest onshore turbines against the backdrop of a semi-rural community between Port Talbot and Maesteg. Plans for the Y Bryn wind farm, which have now gone out to public consultation for a third time, could see 18 towers built that could potentially . . . Complete story »


June 17, 2023 • WalesPrint storyE-mail story

Wind farm in Rhondda set to be discussed by Council

Plans for a wind farm in Rhondda Cynon Taf which could power more than 15,000 homes are set to be discussed by councillors but it’s up to a planning inspector to make a final decision. The application for the wind farm with seven turbines on land at Mynydd y Glyn, to the east of Trebanog, with a capacity of 30 MegaWatts (MW) and the potential [sic] to power 15,376 houses is due to go before the council’s planning committee on . . . Complete story »


June 16, 2023 • Wales, Print storyE-mail story

Opposing wind farms morally unacceptable: Lord Deben

Across Wales, communities are mobilising to object to windfarm developments in their areas. Residents fear the 250m high turbines would pose risks to wildlife, property values and wellbeing. Communities opposed to wind turbines in their local area do not have an “acceptable moral position” according to a climate change expert. Dozens of large-scale wind farm applications are being considered as Wales tries to reach net zero. Campaigners say the ambition is putting the Welsh countryside at risk and south Wales . . . Complete story »


May 14, 2023 • U.K., WalesPrint storyE-mail story

Wales accused of spoiling countryside with wind farms to spite the English

The Welsh government has been accused of spoiling the Welsh countryside with wind farms to spite the English. Cardiff is pressing ahead with onshore wind farm developments when it could explore more offshore projects because it does not want to send fees to the Crown Estate or share control of projects with the UK Government, campaigners have warned. Fay Jones, Conservative MP for Brecon and Radnorshire, criticised the Welsh government for taking a nationalist policy stance on green energy. She . . . Complete story »


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