Windmills - Ανεμογεννήτριες , Destroying Life

Gentle footprint? Or Vandalism? Massive Power Station Planned for Cefn Croes An American backed company, the Renewable Development Company (RDC), wishes to build Britain's largest wind power station yet in the heart of Mid Wales. RDC proposes to build 39 enormous turbines on Cefn Croes, a wild expanse of upland above the villages of Cymystwyth and Ponterwyd to the south of Pumlumon Fawr. At more than double the height of the existing wind turbines at Ystumtuen, the 328 ft. tall Cefn Croes turbines will tower over the Mid-Wales landscape. The project will also involve bulldozing tracks across the moorland and building miles of power lines across the hills. Part of the area proposed as the Cambrian Mountains National Park in the 1970s, the site is in the heart of a designated Environmentally Sensitive Area and a Special Landscape Area, and is next to one of the largest Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Wales. The 39 turbines will be clearly visible from many parts of Mid-Wales including Pumlumon, The Elan Valley Estate, Bryn Bras, Trisant, Pontrhydygroes and even Blaenplwyf and Waunfawr, and will make a cumulative impact in combination with the existing 69 smaller turbines already erected in the surrounding area. The development is proposed to take place on land owned by the Forestry Commission and the National Assembly, and it seems to fly in the face of the National Assembly sponsored Mynydd y Ffynnon project which aims to develop agriculture in harmony with the landscape and environment. It also entirely disregards the guidelines of the Ceredigion Structure and Local Plans, but due to the enormous size of the project the final planning decision will be taken by the Department of Trade and Industry in London, rather than in Ceredigion or Cardiff. The County Council will be a consultee, and if it resolves to object, there would then have to be a local Public Enquiry. Over 250 wind turbines are already visible from Pumlumon, and the beautiful Mid-Wales Landscape is rapidly becoming industrialised. Almost half of all the wind turbines in Britain are situated in Wales, and there are plans for hundreds more. Consent for Cefn Croes would signal that our heartland can be sacrificed. If we do not act now we may be looking at an entirely industrialised landscape in years to come. Cefn Croes Wind Farm - Official Campaign Website http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~hills/cc/index.htm