The Song of the Land: Why the Fight for Mid-Wales Echoes Centuries of Protest 

Dr. Wyn Thomas is a well-known historian with a significant depth of expertise in Welsh protest movements. His landmark study on the flooding of Cwm Tryweryn offers profound insights into today’s political climate. The cultural and environmental trauma of that era directly parallels current, contentious debates regarding the industrialisati …… Read more

The North South pylon line: How did we get here, where will it go?

by Jonathan F Dean

The long speculated north south pylon line seems to be on.  Identified as critical to the U.K. government’s aim for clean power by 2030, necessary to get electricity from Scotland to south Wales and facilitating the mass building of onshore wind farms in mid Wales, National Grid are now offering connection agreements to it

How did we get he …… 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

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

How the Welsh government sold out the Welsh countryside

The following is an article written by David Goodridge in the publication NetZero Watch.

https://www.netzerowatch.com/all-news/how-the-welsh-government-sold-out-the-welsh-countryside?fbclid=IwAR3kVX6FOtOaNLuPlpeo2WPkmkkjaCiAzQgNrYYIZ6zuo4cRxU2az1l08r4.

It details the events which led to the Welsh Government effectively selli …… 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