Sing for Wales or shut your trap

I have to agree that we need to move urgently to sustainable renewable energy and this will come with difficult decisions regarding putting up wind farms in beauty spots and mountains around Wales. I will never support solar farms unless they are the type that allow agricultural farming to continue. In other words, the more expensive types. The only wind farms that should go up in Wales should profit the people of Wales. We should have the local skills and expertise to build, put them up and maintain them.

Interesting article, this is just one example of "lack of joined up-ness" at Goverment level" c.f Planning rules where houses can be built without enhancements to ensure health care and local infrastructure has adequate future capacity.

I wrote to the Welsh Government about their forestry policy which seems barmy. On the one hand they are cutting down mature forest especially as an example the Dillwyn Estate outside Swansea in that case to build houses. The result there was the loss of mature woodland including a heritage tree the large Redwood for which the developer was fined. Elsewhere farmland is being planted thus finishing off rural villages and pushing the language nearer to extinction. The number of windmills is unsustainable and together with the grid infrastructure will destroy the rest of the rural landscape. Wales is essentially an infrastructure annexe to England.

For the same cost, more land could be purchased in Amazonia. Then, it's totally protected, as we've heard this is an area being despoiled, cut, cleared, and burnt. It would lay down a market for other countries to follow. Advantage? Food security here at home, is enhanced. Also in the tropics, trees photosynthsise for most of the year unlike in GB, for 5 o'r 6 months max, a year. Also leaf fall is approx 4 year, not annually as is the case here. Won win

More wind turbines please. There's no point protecting nature when it'll be destroyed by the climate crisis. If we took 10% of golf clubs and made them solar farms we'd generate more than enough electricity. That seems reasonable right?

TREES and Wind Turbines Two men found guilty of cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree have been sentenced to four years and three months each in prison. The Welsh Government agreed to the premature felling, and non replacement, of nearly two million trees to make way for just four Wind Turbine site complexes (they are not 'wind farms'), with many more millions of trees set to fall in Wales to the axe soon (Source of information - Freedom of Information Questions by myself to Natural Resources Wales). This is for Forestry Estate land alone, and does not include broad leaf trees on private farm land, neither miles of ancient hedgerows. Nobody else is asking such questions. Readers please quiz all would be Senedd Candidates who turn up on your doorsteps at next spring's election. Ask if the current Senedd Members should face jail like the two sycamore chain saw vandals.

'Wales is not alone in fighting the proliferation of wind turbines and pylons which threaten to engulf our land  ...' When I open my back door and look westward, I see pretty close to a dozen wind turbines ranged across the hill tops. I can't say that I'm affronted by their presence, because they do seem to me to have a sort of grace. And what do we do if we don't use the power of wind and sun - keep burning fossil fuels? That hardly seems to offer future generations a positive future, does it?

Good article. Wales is once again being annexed by England for industrial exploitation, but this time the Senedd, set up to protect Welsh interests, is totally complicit in this crime. The effects of this destruction of Welsh heritage, if it goes ahead, will reverberate for generations.

What a one sided argument with little or no consideration of the long term consequences to the whinging about wind turbines. Of course government can be and often is utterly ridiculous and contrary. However, to conflate it with the lazy argument that wind turbines are ugly is just bizarre. Wind turbines may or may not be a blot on the landscape. What is worth is no plant life, no animals - just barren wasteland. That's the alternative to renewables. Personally, I think that would look a lot less attractive than a few turbines. Oh, and those who object to the pylons will no doubt be happy to do without power?

City based politicians and councils will always look to exploit the countryside. Sometimes that city has been external to Wales (such as Liverpool) but Cardiff and Newport were very happy to use Acts of Parliament in Westminster (the same as Liverpool did) to ride roughshod over communities in Powys and flood their homes to supply their cities with water. Don't assume that Welsh cities or towns automatically will look after the Welsh countryside, capitalism usually dictates the city gets what it wants. Indeed the council in Bala supported the construction of Llyn Celyn because they thought it would bring 'economic benefits'. We need to ensure Welsh government doesn't just swap one city based government that neglects rural Wales for another another that does the same.