Cardiff Protest Against Wind Farms and Pylons

[ohanotherone]

Calling all Welsh worried about windfarms and the massive effect that TAN 8 will have on Wales for bugger all energy generated. The people of midwales are protesting at Cardiff Senedd tomorrow, please offer your support to the 4 marchers walking to the Senedd arriving tomorrow. Thanks!!!!!

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It's all you guys who will be paying the bills for years to come....

www.ruralvoice.co.uk/2011/05/21/wind-farms-are-they-worth-subsidising/

I don't know, is it "better" to have some giant windmills near you, or some giant chimneys near someone else?

Oh, I get it, it's the "near you" bit, isn't it?

The near me is very concerning.....if you had a power station the size of greater london with all the associated 150ft pylons and 22 acre hubs and 300 miles of cancer causing high voltage lines coming to the area near you it would concern you too.

Octopus.....800 olympic sized swimming pools of concrete dug out of peat bogs pretty much negates the impact that the turbines will have on global warming. The precious metal extraction for use in the turbines from china causes pollution there. They are not green, just seem to be green. Being green is a passion for many of us in mid wales, but we all want microgeneration and insulation and truly green answer to our energy problems. Not one conventional power station will be closed as wind is so unreliable.

James Dellingpole says it better blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100088906/wales-is-in-danger-why-isnt-the-prince-of-wales-saving-it/

Excuse my total ignorance but What is fracking???? Sounds like dogging????

The research about people liking windfarms is based on the small windfarms with smaller turbines than those proposed now. We already have those visible and most people are happy about them. What is proposed is cutting down acres of forests and trees, 800 turbines the size of The Gerkin in London all connected by massive Pylons which will stretch from Shrewsbury to mid wales covering 90% of Montgomeryshire. So if you travel from Shrewsbury in England to Aberyswyth on the coast in a straight line, there will be Turbines or Pylons all the way. It's a massive proposal. Over 6000 jobs depend on tourism in this area and it would be madness for any government to use the small scale studies as a basis for assuming that tourists would still want to visit mid wales once these things are up, besides that, they are going up in other areas aswell, once the BWEA has their way, most of Scotland and Somerset will be destroyed to.

You pay through ROC's and increased bills, the link you sent is incorrect, wind is more costly than nuclear or coal or gas.

so how do you square that with "covering 90% of Montgomeryshire" That would take billions of pylons or fans.

Not "a 50 mile grid line"

I suppose you live in a self-contained commune with no electricity or gas or telephone, is that right? No factory-made products like cars? No roads? No mains water or drainage? Therefore you have no need of the pylons and power stations that the rest of us depend on.

Have you also protested about power stations and pylons not in your own backyard?

Anyone who doesn't want wind farms, wave power, solar panels and turbines etc near them should be kicked off the national grid, as they obviously would rather look at miles and miles of farmers fields lined with fences and hedgerows then have lighting, heating etc.

Let the moaners be the first to experience what it's like to live in the dark ages, after all thats how we will all live if they keep getting in the way of progress, fossil fuels are running out and making this planet a mess.

Partners parents live in Cornwall, I think the massive wind farm they have there is the most interesting thing on an otherwise barren and highly cultivated landscape that consists of nothing but rough squares of various shades of green/yellow and a few sheep.

We really need more water wheels tho I don't understand why we don't have them, this country was a hive of industry in the past precisely because of the large amount of rivers we have, both above and below ground that powered factories with water wheels.

NYMBYism wrapped up in unconvincing rationalisations

Seeing as though you object to windfarms being built in your area, would you be happy for a nuclear power station to be built there instead?

Trawsfynedd is only 20 miles away so yes I am happy about a Nuclear Power Station being near me. 15 Miles away a whole village was buried underwater for the people of Liverpool to have clean water so it's not like anybody in this area has never contributed to the national resources network.

It's not just one grid line, it's also a network of Mega Pylons connecting 17 wind farms planned for mid wales.

Quite a few people do live quite happily off grid locally. Even the most ardent eco warriors disagree with these plans as collectively they will cause massive environmental damage. Wales already has met the targets for renewable energy. So this is all about mid wales sending electricity into the National Grid for people in cities to waste.

Shropshire's MP is particularly concerned about the impact of flooding on Shrewsbury and Atcham. The environmental impact assessments are flawed and biased and have not been done properly. It's incredibly bad government policy fed by greedy wind power companies.

Many people are waking up of their deception...www.jmt.org/wind-analysis-report.asp. Unfortunately the BBC is very biased towards windpower so no one gets a truly balanced view. These people have never stood on a field as the water table rises, literally bubbling up through the earth and experienced floods of over 6ft high. So I'm happy to be a Nimby as I do know what impact the scale of this policy will have locally and nationally.

What gets forgotten in the wind farm debate is the damage done during the construction..... There is one being planned for near us and it involves turning an ancient (and I mean really ancient) farm lane into a single track road with passing places to enable the construction of 4 whopping great turbines. It will go through the farm yards of two listed building, and totally obliterate ancient hill land. A road which goes down a steep wooded hill has had loads of trees felled in order to allow the lorries to pass under them.

Not forgetting the amount of concrete that is needed - manufacture of concrete is incredibly bad for the environment - and the fact that these particular ones are only planned to be in place for 24 years after which they will be decomissioned and just left there. That is why I am against these ones - if they are going to do all this damage then they should look at the best way of a)minimalising it, and b)a longer time in service. Oh, and all this winter when it was so cold, there was barely enough movement in the air to puff a feather......

And as a bit of icing, they are hoping to get past the parish council by offering a bribe, sorry grant, of £24,000 to them for community projects - generous to a fault eh!

In principle I agree that we need to look at how we source our energy, but riding roughshod over people's livelihoods and concerns is not a way to endear yourselves to the natives. Prove to me that they are really beneficial, less damaging to the environment and I will think again.

This is the issue, once up the windmills supposedly produce "clean energy". The environmental costs of the concrete pads and road building to get the vast structures on site not calculated or hugely underplayed by the developers. Whole sections of road through some towns and villages will need to be ripped up and relaid to allow the juggernauts through. It's only when the damage is done that people see the true costs.

The subsidies are hidden in ROC's and therefore are not transparent. These huge wind farms do not benefit the local economy at all. The bribes do not cover the true cost. They even get money when they don't work....

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-13253876

Wind farms are a rip-off, benefiting only the landowner, who receives large subsidies. The farms are ruining the landscape for little benefit to the tax payer or consumer. I'm glad that this is being acknowledged at last.

Good luck, Cardiff!

We have a wind farm down the road from us. It is a blight and the turbines hardly ever seem all to be working. As far as I can tell it powers a hamlet of about seven people and two dogs. Lots of ££££ for the farmer, though.

Iolo says it in Welsh..... news.bbc.co.uk/welsh/hi/newsid_9490000/newsid_9494700/9494764.stmp

ITV and BBC both covered the protests. ITV's lunchtime coverage is here

www.itv.com/wales/lunchtime-wales-news67187/

Sorry Iolo's here..

news.bbc.co.uk/welsh/hi/newsid_9490000/newsid_9494700/9494764.stm

the next generation will be paying in terms of global warming

oh come on you surely don't still believe that load of bollox do you???