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 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
Hands off Wales interviewed people at the demonstration outside the Plaid Conference in Swansea on Saturday 11th October.
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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
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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
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
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
The following is an article written by David Goodridge in the publication NetZero Watch.
It details the events which led to the Welsh Government effectively selli …… Read more
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