4: TARIAN GLYNDWR - NO TURBINES ON HYDDGEN - PROTEST TRIAL RUN.

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Update: I've just had this message which will help to clarify a few points re the Nant y Moch site..

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Dear Siân,

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Planning permission has not been granted yet. Airtricity are aiming to submit the applications by the end of the year, but will probably (hopefully), be delayed. The fact that this trial run has been postponed is a good sign, the more delay the better our chances of fighting this ill-conceived project. It is not the police who want a trial run, it is Dulas, Airtricity's consultants. The police are clearly not happy with any of the transports. In Powys they have brought out a report to say that they will be unable to cope with all the planned turbine transports. That is the reason why they are now planning to bring the Nant-y-moch turbines in from Swansea instead of Ellesmere.Again: I should be grateful if you know of any Welsh speaking residents in the villages around the wind farm area who might be willing to help us in our campaign to raise awareness the impact this development will have, but I shall be away for the coming fortnight, so anyone interested could contact either Carol Swales or Ann West at the Cambrian Mountains Society.Diolch and best wishes,Wyck

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CERRIG CYFAMOD GLYNDŴR will be within this Turbine Plantation,

see info link below:

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Latest News
24 February 2009, Nant-y-moch Wind Turbines, The Welsh Assembly's TAN 8 document identified the Nant-y-moch area as suitable for wind turbines. ...www.ceredigionramblers.org.uk/.../Latest%20News.htm - Cached - Similar
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The Welsh Assembly's TAN 8 document identified the Nant-y-moch area as suitable for wind turbines. A map from the developers has recently become available indicating their "Nant-y-moch Preliminary Layout". It shows over 100 turbines covering an area which extends from just outside Talybont in the west and well into Powys in the east, and from Cwm Einion (known to many as Artists’ Valley!) in the north to Llyn Craigypistyll (the source of Aberystwyth’s water) in the south. It includes the site of Cerrig Cyfammod Glyndŵr where Owen Glyndŵr is reputed to have “held parley, and made his covenant” and is close to the probable site of Glyndŵr’s famous victory in the Battle of Hyddgen. The developers have ignored the recommendations produced by ARUP consultants working on behalf of Ceredigion Council who concluded: "It is recommended in accordance with the study brief that the TAN 8 SSA boundary is … refined to remove the environmentally worst performing areas and any additional land not needed to deliver the TAN 8 indicative capacities". This recommendation would have significantly reduced the area originally proposed by the Assembly, but the developers are now proposing to extend it - to go beyond not only ARUP but also beyond the original SSA boundary.If these proposals are implemented they will have massive implications for the Group's walking programme.
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Update 14 Sept 09: Information recieved that Dulas (Airtricity's Consultants) are not now going to hold a trial run on the 16 Medi 2009 between Abertawe Docks and Hyddgen. However, we suggest Anti Windmill Activists go ahead with their own trial run, keeping in mind that to be fore informed is to be fore-armed, I mean, with information and not with swords and bows as Glyndŵr would have used to sort this matter out.

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Aitricity and it's Machynleth based agents, DULAS LTD are now stating that the Nant y Moch scheme does not impinge on Glyndŵr's Hyddgen Battlefield, how do they know that? as the battle was very much a running fight as Glyndŵr as his warriors smashed their way through encirclement, this means the battle could have been quite scattered over wide area. However, as can be seen see from the above statement taken from the Ramblers website, the Turbine Plantation will impinge on Cerrig Cyfamod Glyndŵr so, that's good enough to sustain our keen interest. On 16 Medi, we shall make a token symbolic stand at the entrance to Swansea dock. are there any Pobl Glyndŵr out there who can, at the least, make a symbolic stand at Glyndŵr's Covenant Stones, ideal time and place to pledge a covenant for all to make a stand together against this planned invasion to desecrate our great heritage in the landscape.

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.1. The trial run has been postponed. The police want more time to prepare. 2. The proposed turbines will be 145m (475 ft?) high: more than 1.5x Big Ben. The blades alone will be 45m which is 2m more than the full height of Mynydd Gorddu wind farm!3.

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Embassy Glyndŵr Position Statement.

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Our campaign is not about just defending Battlefields but Heritage in the Landscape plus of course we oppose these turbines anyway. Re our present protest, I accept the turbine invasion/trial run is off, but other turbines are coming in via Swansea Docks regualrly to deliver to turbine plantations throug hout the land. So a symbolic token protest there will not be a bad thing, and in general, I have stated the usefulness of our own trial run to collect info in advance regards seeking out potential picketing, placard and poster propaganda points en route.

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Hence, we shall move into action when called upon to do so by any anti - windmill action groups or campaigns, but think it a must to have more 'all groups' unity and solidarity, at least via some sort of nationally representative liaison & coordination body. However, all please note, for the next 2/3 months, I shall be very busy with another kind of Heritage Campaign, but in answer to another letter, yes, we are in favour of a National Demonstration at the Assembly, perhaps on 21 September when the AM's return for the Autumn session, but I will leave others to call for such and generally organise and publicise.

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SEE BELOW LINKS FOR VERY USEFUL INFORMATION.

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Route Access Report Number: 158655 Meardy & Hirwaun Wind Farms ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLSwansea Docks onto Fabian Way (A483). The exit detailed in drawing series .... I am currently carrying out a survey for the movement of Wind Turbine ...www.maerdywindfarm.co.uk/ReportsIssued/.../Appendix%20I.pdf - Similar
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Nantymoch windfarm and the landscape
Cambrian Mountains Society - Nantymoch widfarm proposal landscape issues ... LANDMAP is the Welsh national information system, devised by the Countryside ...
www.cambrian-mountains.co.uk/issues/nantymoch-landscape.htm - Cached

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Nantymoch windfarm protest 20th June 2009
Story and images of a gathering organised by the Cambrian Mountains Society on 20.6.2009 to protest against the Nantymoch widfarm proposal
www.cambrian-mountains.co.uk/issues/nantymoch-protest.htm - Cached
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Ceredigion County Council - Utilities
Will O'Whispers; Bigger Nantymoch dam proposed, Cambrian News, 10/12/1971, P68(2) ... Arguing against a windfarm on the 'hill of agitation', Cambrian News, 12/1/1996 ...
www.ceredigion.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=10368 - Cached

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Frequently Asked Questions
The technical name of the Nant y Moch scheme is SSA D. The SSAs were identified by the .... Contracting Dulas Ltd, based in Machynlleth, and Melin Cyf in ...www.userfusion.com/air2/index.php/faqs.html - Cached - Similar

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. National Wind Watch Industrial Wind Energy News

Airtricity intends to work with local company Dulas Ltd to build the 100MW project on a rural, upland site at Nant-y-Moch. It had previously been selected ...www.wind-watch.org/news/page/230/?s=sse - Similar

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'I'r Gad' yn Ysbryd Glyndŵr.

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Siân.