Earlier news round-ups: Winter 2005/6 | Summer 2006 | Spring 2008
Sustaining an unfunded campaign, run by volunteers, for 8½ years is an achievement in its own right, and we can be proud of what we have done.
Although we failed to stop Cefn Croes, we have raised consciousness and disseminated information about the folly of an energy policy which pushes commercial wind turbines:
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The website has been maintained for 7 years. |
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Thousands of letters to national and local newspapers, councillors, MPs, Assembly Members, and civil servants have been sent. |
| The book The Battle for Cefn Croes is still available to read - click here. |
| We gave oral evidence at two public enquiries - Whinash and Rhos-y-garn, and both windfarms were rejected. Written evidence was submitted to several others. |
| Formal consultation responses to energy and planning policy documents were sent to various government departments, select committees, the National Assembly for Wales, Forestry Commission, RSPB, and Countryside Council for Wales. |
| Public meetings in Ammanford, Talgarreg, Corwen, Hereford, Knighton, Carno, and Llanbadarn Fynydd have been attended, and contributions made to them. |
| We have written articles for ECOS magazine (BANC), Rural Wales (Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales), Walking Wales, and the Cambrian Mountains Society newsletter. Interviews and filming opportunities have been given. |
| The government's decision to approve Cefn Croes without a public inquiry was challenged through the courts, with a request for a judicial review in the High Court. We lost that, and were denied a public inquiry. |
| More recently, another battle of attrition with the former DTI and the Information Commissioners' Office, to obtain information, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Impact Regulations 2004, resulted in the reluctant release of some information relating to the Cefn Croes decision. |
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Formal complaints to the Information Commissioners' Office have now been made against the Welsh Assembly Government and Forestry Commission Wales, seeking information regarding the legal advice for change of use of public forestry lands to windustry. See our Press Release on this matter. |
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The result of another formal complaint to the European Commission regarding irreversible peat damage on Cefn Croes is also awaited. |
Powys County Council, recognising the damage that wind developments have on the small roral road network of Mid Wales, have put all wind applications on hold, and have asked the National Assembly for Wales to rethink its wind policy. This could be the breakthrough we've been waiting for.
Ceredigion County Archive in Aberystwyth has been chosen as the final resting place for the 50+ boxes of files, letters, reports, consultation responses, photographs etc. of the campaign, and will be available for future political students and historians for research into this lunatic policy visited upon Wales.
Earlier news round-ups: Winter 2005/6 | Summer 2006 | Spring 2008
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