20th July 2005
Folks, it's one of those days again.
I make no apology for straying slightly from strictly "anti-wind power" business but it seems to me that the wind power industry is so massively politically orientated that I feel that I have to add a side issue.Although you all might not have had the personal pleasure of meeting the lady, as some of us have, undoubtedly you have all heard of Elizabeth Mann from County Durham.
Knowing Elizabeth, it comes as no surprise to find that Elizabeth, an extremely vocal anti-wind power campaigner, also highlights the lunacy of "Two Jags Prescott" and his planning policies such as PPS 22, and his attempt to construct a Regional Assembly for the north east of England.
All of us living in Wales know of the shambles and the enormous bureaucratic expense that we have to endure from our own Welsh Assembly sheep, so it is enlightening to find that 'others' in the UK have noticed what is happening and have rejected regional Assemblies.
You may think, "What's this got to do with the wind power industry?"
It simply endorses how our lives and futures have become so politically driven by the 'green vote catchers' in the UK.
To try to comprehend how corrupt our politicians and their thinking has become in order to achieve their own personal dreams, please read Neil Herron's Blogspot which includes the 'Christopher Booker's Sunday Telegraph Notebook' comments, together with added comments from "our" Liz.
Neil Herron's Blogspot
The other issue is of the "exclusive" publication on the 23rd of June 2005, in the "Cambrian News" (typically not followed up by the National Press) of the grave concerns expressed by the Environment Agency that the Cefn Croes wind farm installation has created an enormous enviromental problem.
Consternation as wind farm site is found to be emitting carbon dioxide
Dr John Etherington has taken the time to study and comment on the public domain "Minutes of the Cefn Croes Management Committee" meetings. It is appalling that the Cefn Croes installation was allowed to proceed, knowing the grave concerns expressed openly by that committee.
Extracts from the Cefn Croes Environmental Management Committee Minutes
Not only is the Cefn Croes installation an environmental crime, but a fellow environmentalist colleague of Dr John's from Maryland, USA, has supplied web links of similar installations in America where acres upon acres of high-elevation forested ridgetops have been clear-felled to accomodate wind turbine installations.
Virginia & Pennsylvania
Disturbing aerial photos of wind farm installations
More photos of wind farm installations
Palm Springs, California
Aerial photo of access roadways
County Galway, Ireland
The infamous Derrybrien landslide with audio/video clips
That's it folks... I'm off my personal soapbox now and today's news follows.
Western Mail online edition
Windfarm Madness & Ill Wind & Herd this method? (letters - web link)
Scroll down the WM web page to the 3rd, 4th & 7th letters
AM's expenses questioned after leaked memo (article - weblink)
This next article is nothing more than sheer hypocrisy coming from Rural Affairs minister Carwyn Jones AM, after what has already happened at Cefn Croes and what is planned for other upland areas of Wales, under the Welsh Assembly's wind power policy....
Conifers to fall asunder in £2.3m woodland restoration (article - web link)
If you want a real belly-laugh, read this next article....
Assembly future divides leaders (article - web link)
South Wales Evening Post
Wind plans outrageous (letter - .JPG file format 147 Kb)
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The Assembly's planning minister.... (letter - .JPG file format 150 Kb)
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Rebecca Rioter
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& with Meirion's consent.
Project aims at history revival (page 10 article - .JPG file format 68.3 Kb)
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Carmarthen Journal
Windfarm plan backed (article - .JPG file format 130 Kb)
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Devastating beauty (letter - .JPG file format 52.1 Kb)
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Action against wind farms (letter - .JPG file format 193 Kb)
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Policy makes way for turbines (article + map - .JPG file format 239 Kb)
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Wind Turbines Brechfa Forest News (report - .JPG file format 57.9 Kb)
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The following letter from today's Carmarthen Journal has nothing to do with wind power, but when I read it I thought that it certainly put paid to the old nursery rhyme...
"Taffy was a Welshman
Taffy was a thief
Taffy went to London
and stole a leg of beef."
High esteem for the Welsh (letter - .JPG file format 73.8 Kb)
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South Wales Guardian
'Aberfan' warning over mountain wind farm (article + photo - .JPG file format 169 Kb)
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Saving energy is our only hope (letter - .JPG file format 77 Kb)
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