Tues. March 12th Devastating News

The Secretary of State for Energy has granted planning permission for RWE to build a wind farm of 28 giant turbines at Brechfa Forest West, alongside the existing 10 turbine wind farm at Alltwalis. Of course we could not expect Whitehall to show any compassion for the interests of local people here in Wales. The real villain in this tragedy is the Welsh Government which identified a large area of the Llanllwni mountain as ripe for any old carpet bagger to come and take advantage,  making large sums of money at our expense. The worst of it is, we still face the threat of wind farms number 3 and 4 here, which are currently in the planning process. Should these extra wind farms go ahead, we would be faced with a total of 70 giant structures turning an unspoiled tranquil area  of countryside into an industrial zone. It seems that government has selected us for special treatment and clearly don't care about the impact on our lives. The only thing that matters to these politicians is their green image because any rational assessment of wind energy would not consider using a flawed technology which is inefficient and unreliable. Never mind the effect of turbine sound on local people's health and on the value of their property; these developments require huge subsidies which lead to an increase in fuel poverty and the need for conventional power stations to be on permanent stand-by when there is to little or too much wind.