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What they are saying overseas: In Wales, huge wind ‘farms’ have already been built in the Cambrian Mountains Environmentally Sensitive Area at Cefn Croes (b. 2005) and, from the summit of Plynlimon in this magnificent area of mid-Welsh hill country, many more than 200 turbines are now visible. Simon Jenkins wrote long ago in the Spectator (1995): At that time too, the Welsh Secretary, David Hunt wrote: "I have gazed on this view since childhood and even the Forestry Commission's set-square plantations failed to ruin it. Today the view has been defaced beyond belief. In the middle of the tableau and standing guard over the upper waters of the Dovey lies a mountain ridge known as Cemmaes. Across its summit now march 24 gigantic white wind-turbines. Like creatures from The War of the Worlds, they frantically wave their arms across the scenery as if semaphoring to some distant ally. Not only is it impossible to avoid them, placed as they are on one of the most prominent spots in mid-Wales, but their ceaseless movement draws the eye from wherever else it may rest. Nobody with an ounce of respect for the countryside could have permitted their erection." Source: http://www.countryguardian.net |
