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
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Senedd Protest Wednesday 11th February
On Wednesday 11th February, groups from all over Wales and, in fact, some from Scotland and England, joined together in front of the Senedd in Cardiff to express their views about what the proposed windfarm and pylon schemes would mean to Wales as a country and to them as individuals. There was music, speeches, chanting and enormous sense of unity in the desir …… Read more
A40 Traffic Chaos at Llanwrda
The flyer created by the Caru Teifi group outlining the traffic management issues that will be caused by the construction of the four windfarms around and above Lampeter, raises the important issue that our narrow rural road network will be used for construction traffic transporting materials and turbine blades from Swansea M4, to Carmarthen A48 and then …… Read more
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
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