NoPylons « Our Tywi Valley

ATP demonstrating how cable ploughing offers the solution to undergrounding cables and avoiding the need 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

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

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

8th June 2023

RESIDENTS in the Towy Valley have described a statement by Bute Energy, the company behind the plans for pylons in the valley, as ‘out of touch with reality.’

Read article in the South Wales Guardian > …… Read more