Under the leadership of Havard Hughes, who serves as the spokesperson for the Carmarthenshire Residents Action Group (CRAiG) and as the Vice Chairman of Our Tywi Valley (Llandeilo Community Group Against Pylons), a protest occurred outside the Plaid Cymru Conference in Swansea. This demonstration was organized in response to the extensive developmen …… Read more
Author Archives: Sue Lawrence
Saving the Green Energy at the Heart of Wales
The Loud Hills of Wales (Dylan Thomas)
Wales, Cymru ! What do those who live here and those who visit see? Different things almost certainly, but for many it is a landscape that is rich with mountains and hills, lakes and rivers and stunning coastlines. They see castles which tell the story of Wales and some which chart the story of Owain Glyndŵr and his rebell …… Read more
History Repeating Itself: From valley drownings to pylon routes
The slogan for the controversial Tryweryn valley drowning (despite protests and opposition from local MPs against it), was Cofiwch Dryweryn (“Remember Tryweryn”) and this became a symbol reminding people not to forget the destruction of the landscape and the community. The wall on which the slogan is painted is an unofficial memorial to th …… Read more
ATP Demonstration Day showing how cable ploughing offers an alternative to 60 miles of pylons
Protest march through Llandovery in opposition to Green GEN’s plans for 60 miles of pylons
Hundreds of protestors opposing plans for a 60 mile pylon route through mid Wales took to the streets to show their opposition. Bute Energy/Green GEN has submitted plans to run the pylons through countryside and farmland from Radnor to Carmarthen.
The company met a frosty reception from people living in the affected areas when they attended a public consu …… Read more
Bute Energy plan new pylon route through the Teifi Valley
The Towy Teifi scheme which will connect Bute Energy’s Lan Fawr Energy Park, which is being developed on land north of Lampeter, to the east of Llanddewi Brefi. The proposed route would see it passing near the communities of Lampeter, Llanllwni, Alltwalis and Rhydargaeau, then east of Carmarthen crossing both the A40 and A48 to a National Grid substation at …… Read more
Countryside Charity CPRW complains to the Advertising Standards Agency about Bute Energy claims on their website.
CPRW public and community affairs manager, Ross Evans, has written to ASA detailing 11 issues on the Bute Energy/GreenGEN Cymru websites which he believes are misleading and inaccurate.
Read the full story here:
https://nation.cymru/news/charity-makes-formal-complaint-about-misleading-claims-made-by-energy-company/?fbclid=IwAR3n_uc …… Read more
Kate Glanville on pylons in the Towy Valley
Kate Glanville is a local potter and author and writes here about her love of the Towy Valley and her worries about the potential destruction of it by a 60 mile long row of 27m pylons which will blight the landscape.
This is me wearing my new Cofiwch Ddyffryn Twyi T shirt at Junction Pool in Rhandirmwyn beside the beautiful River Twyi near the start of the river’s 6 …… Read more