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I am also for Green energy but I don’t think this is the solution especially when you read they need replacing in 20 yrs plus obvious environmental damage to land animals water courses & people … Mynydd Maen is one of the few places left in this are you can go for actual peace & quiet…
But it’s also not away from homes it’s only a stroll away for us all that live up here …
What’s the environmental impact on transporting huge steel constructed parts all the way from China. Then what’s Happens to the turbines at the end of life?
The whole model needs looking at cradle to grave!
Ive heard that Fracking can affect water table and faults underground? Quite concerned that the quarrying of 160,000 tons of stone for these things and how that might impact old mine shafts that go up from top of springvale industrial estate and elsewhere under Mynydd Maen?
The suggestion that these developments will benefit the community is laughable. There are no jobs for local people and the turbines are not made in Britain despite us having a steel making industry in Wales.
It’s farcical and short sighted not to spend money on improving our capacity to store surplus energy in the National Grid. As for what happens to the turbines when their shelf life is limited is never discussed. As we know concrete road ways and bases will never be reinstated as is promised. One has only to visit sites where there were concrete pill boxes and aeroplane runways built in World War 2, to see the legacy of concrete foundations and buildings.
People mention the electricity pylons which are an eye sore, but no one wanted these above ground but why accept further industrialisation of our mountain when other forms of renewables should be promoted.
This development needs halting before the damage is done.
The suggestion that these developments will benefit the community is laughable. There are no jobs for local people and the turbines are not made in Britain despite us having a steel making industry in Wales.
It’s farcical and short sighted not to spend money on improving our capacity to store surplus energy in the National Grid. As for what happens to the turbines when their shelf life is limited is never discussed. As we know concrete road ways and bases will never be reinstated as is promised. One has only to visit sites where there were concrete pill boxes and aeroplane runways built in World War 2, to see the legacy of concrete foundations and buildings.
People mention the electricity pylons which are an eye sore, but no one wanted these above ground but why accept further industrialisation of our mountain when other forms of renewables should be promoted.
This development needs halting before the damage is done.
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