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Ruth Lea report for Civitas - Electricity Costs: the folly of wind power January 2012

 

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EUROPE'S ILL WIND

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COMING SOON!

new photo gallery: 

"WORLD CLASS CYMRU

WORLD CLASS CARNAGE"

the ugly face of those "green"

wind power stations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The magnificent wilderness around Nant y Moch and Pumlumon in the Cambrian Mountains is highly cherished: a sacred, exquisite jewel.

 

But this world class countryside faces a very shabby shameful threat

 

A planning application to construct a massive wind power station at Nant y Moch is expected Spring 2012 so . . . . .

 

 

 

 if you want to PROTECT this               then OBJECT to this!

 

Plynlimon near Nant y Moch, the Cambrian Mountains, Wales - copyright Jules Montgomery                  World Class Cymru, World Class Carnage - image copyright David J Glaves

 

 

 

 

if you want to PROTECT this

 

Nant y Moch from Craig y Pistyll

 

 

 

OBJECT to this!

 

Nant y Moch from Craig y Pistyll - how it would look with a Wind Power Station - but you'd also get individual access roads excavated and constructed for each single turbine - and a massive concrete slab poured in to the hillside for every single turbine

 

 

 

  and STOP this                    and this                       and this!

 

pylons in the countryside - copyright Ben Salter       electricity pylons in the countryside - copyright Ian Dyer       electricity pylons in the countryside - copyright Ben Salter

   

copyright Ben Salter                            copyright Ian Dyer                               copyright Ben Salter

 

 

So what have pylons got to do with it?

Well you see, any bit of electricity that a wind power station might be able to make at Nant y Moch would have to be taken away from Wales and transported all the way across Montgomeryshire and Powys to North Shropshire. It would then be given to the National Grid at Ironbridge Legacy power station.

 

But there just one problem: there's no pylons or overhead powerlines to transport the tiniest bit of electricity over all those miles . . .

 

So what does this mean?

It means that the Nant y Moch wind power station proposal is a big can of worms because it would mean

 

Abermule / Cefn Coch - construction of 30 acre approx substation hub

 

North Shropshire - construction of a connection point

 

Montgomeryshire, Powys, Shropshire - erection of miles of pylons and overhead powerlines to connect the wind power station, substation hub and connection point to each other

 

Get more info and plans here

 

 

 

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