Public consultation launched into plans for new National Park in Wales

A better option instead might be to do something about improving the dire, and deteriorating, state of the landscape, rivers and wildlife in the existing National Parks.

The Clwdian Range needs protecting against inappropriate developments and the unique features of the range such as the line of hillforts need to be better known and protected. As a long term resident of the AONB I fully support its conversion to a National park

 Let's hope that any new National Park, and its near neighbourhood, is not swamped in useless erratic Wind Turbines. Here is what we know about Wind Turbines and can be proven and most people ignore :- We know full well that onshore Wind Turbines are only about 25% effective of their boasted capacity (maximum).  We know that offshore Wind Turbines can perform a little bit better but are incredibly more costly.  We know they are all as erratic as the uncontrollable wind.  We know they are ugly in the eyes of most beholders.  We know their construction devastates scenic landscape.  We know they kill birds and protected bats and essential pollinating insects.  We know they require millions of immature trees to be cut down around the UK in forested areas of development sites.  We know they can disintegrate hurling giant heavy fragments dangerously long distances.  We know they can hurl large sharp ice shards after freezing weather thaws. We know they can catch fire that rage out of control.  We know that child labour is used in some countries that supply essential molybdenum for the manufacture of Wind Turbine nacelle generators.  We know they can emit peculiar sounds at different wavelengths.  We know that certain Governments (e.g. Pedw in Wales) have rigged policies to favour planning permission approvals.  We know their construction stage necessitates removal of hedgerows and eco habitats off miles of country minor roads to allow delivery vehicle passage for their towers and particularly their giant blades that must come complete.  We know that in other countries the old blades are proving difficult to recycle making them unsustainable.  We know that most sites are being developed by foreign investors.  We know that many sites are owned by rich landowners.  We know even common land is not protected from them.  We know that Wales UK is being currently targeted for hundreds of giant 820 ft tall turbines above rural communities.  We know these Wind Turbines will necessitate ugly pylon lines to take their erratic power from rural scenic Wales to English cities.  We know most of our Politicians know all this and are ignoring it all with a false obsession of making little Wales the world leader in global renewable energy.  We know the web site GRIDWATCH proves them wrong.  We know many sites destroy peat beds.  We know their construction sites can become sources of flood water run off.  We know Wind Turbines can never power the UK without a very reliable back up system  We know site excavations can become unstable - the latest landslip is shown in film below recently in May 2024 on the wonderful Shetland Isles. Who are 'we'?  We are a small loose minority who are laughed at and called 'deniers' by developers and by our own politicians. Footage shows landslide at Shetland wind farm   CARBON COMPLICITY CARBON COMPLICITY is a topic the Extinction Rebellion and Greens and Carbon Zero advocates, including the Wales Senedd, avoid discussing. Most of the manufactured products we buy in the UK, such as ‘White Goods’ ( large pieces of household equipment (e.g. such as refrigerators; microwaves; cookers and washing machines), now originate from China. The Chinese manufacture these goods using electrical power which is 61% sourced from Coal fired Power Stations. China produces 80% of the world’s solar panels and 90% of UK Solar Panels are sourced from China. The use of forced labour in the solar panel industry, particularly among the Uyghur population in China, has been a growing concern. Reports have linked several solar companies with factories in Xinjiang to forced labour practices, particularly for workers from the Uighur minority.  It’s not just China but it is an easy example to show that we are nearly all complicit in creating Carbon Dioxide round the planet, just as we in Wales are ruining our economy by madly rushing here at home into carbon zero under a delusion that Wales will globally save the planet. The Wind Turbines we are erecting are manufactured overseas and the essential molybdenum in many, use child labour workforces to mine it. Here is one reputable grassroots report on Solar Panels :- https://www.cpreherts.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2021/10/The-Problem-with-Solar-Farms.pdf   POPULATION GROWTH POPULATION GROWTH - again is a topic the Extinction Rebellion and Greens and Carbon Zero advocates, including the Wales Senedd, avoid discussing. Everyone on the planet now wants their share of ‘mod cons’. One major factor in all this, that is not mentioned, is spiralling global population. It is estimated that two thousand years ago the entire global world population was less than 0.2 billion. Just over two hundred years ago it became one billion. Now it is over eight billion - rising by the population of Wales every two weeks. It will in a few years be over ten billion. Let’s repeat that - the global population rises by the population of Wales every two weeks. Yet our own Politicians rushing little Wales into a zero carbon economy say Wales will be a global leader in preventing global climate change. What planet are they on?

The National Parks have become Tourist Development Centres and a cost to the environment and residents.