Don’t ruin Wales with wind farms

AS THE owner of Cardigan Island Coastal Farm Park, may I reiterate the words of leading Welsh author Terry Breverton in saying that the Welsh Government’s current wind energy plans will ruin both Welsh landscapes and tourism?

Visit Wales should speak out and defend Welsh tourism, even though they are part of the government.

National Grid has published maps showing that while Wales was a net exporter of 2TWh of wind-generated electricity to England in 2021, it proposes a massive 35TWh in 2030. That is 17.5 times the 2021 export.

Wales will be covered in wind turbines and the pylons to carry the sporadic electricity.

The latest outrage by Scotland’s Bute Energy is to propose 36 monstrous 715-foot-high wind turbines at Nant Mithil Energy Park in superb unspoilt Welsh countryside at New Radnor, Powys, near the English border.

To link it to the National Grid, they want to erect a new 60-milelong pylon line running south west down the beautiful Towy Valley to join the grid at Pont Abraham, near Carmarthen.

From there, the electricity will go back east to England.

There will be a voltage drop from cabling all along the whole long U-shaped journey through Wales. Does that make sense?

Bute Energy is also desecrating Moelfre Uchaf mountain near Colwyn Bay, as documented in Andrew Forgrave’s excellent report on February 2.

That superb landscape will have 20 820ft wind turbines all higher than the Great Orme, each one with a blade-swept area of 4.8 acres. That’s at least two football pitches per machine, so the noise will be horrendous.

Tell Bute Energy to build their wind farms in England, where the electricity is needed.

LJ Jenkins Cardigan