Sunday, 7 August 2011

ABERTHU CYMRU AR ALLOR GWALLGOFRWYDD!

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Diddorol yw gweld fod gan Cwmni ‘Windpower Wales/Ynni Cymru sef, cwmni melinau gwynt Eryl ‘Del Boi’ Vaughan uned ar faes yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yn Wrecsam eleni. Yno, heb amheuaeth,  i dwyllo mwy o Gymry i gefnogi tyfiant ei bortffolio codi melinau gwynt ‘da i ddim’ ac i lwgrwobrwyo mwy o gymunedau, sefydliadau ac ysgolion Cymreig a’n harian ni!

Y gwir amdani yw y byddai neb yn codi’r ffermydd gwynt aneffeithiol ‘ma oni bai fod yna gymorthdaliadau gwirion o enfawr i’w cael o bwrs y wlad fel anogaeth i gwmnïau datblygu ‘ynni adnewyddadwy’ i’w codi. Mae llywodraeth San Steffan wedi ymrwymo eu hunain (a ninnau) ar gost aruthrol, i gynhyrchu un rhan o dri o’u cyflenwad ynni o ffynonellau ‘adnewyddadwy’, o fewn y deg mlynedd nesaf  ac er bod yna amrywiaeth o adnoddau ‘adnewyddadwy’ y gellid fod wedi dewis ohonynt fel modd o anelu i gyrraedd y nod, ymddengys mai melinau gwynt yw prif ddewis y  cwmnïau datblygu ‘ynni adnewyddol’ am mai codi melinau gwynt yw’r ffordd hwylusaf a rhatach i gasglu’r “ROC” (Renewable Obligation Certificates) sef y nawdd sydd i’w gael yn flynyddol i bob cwmni sy’n cynhyrchu ynni. Ar hyn o bryd mae yna £400miliwn yn cael ei dalu’n flynyddol mewn ROC ym Mhrydain i’r sawl sy’n codi ac yn cynhyrchu trydan gyda melinau gwynt. Mae hyn yn golygu bod pob un felin wynt sy’n gallu cynhyrchu dros 2MW ym Mhrydain yn cael nawdd o £123,000 - cyn cymryd i ystyriaeth yr elw maent yn ei wneud o werthiant yr ynni sy’n cael ei gynhyrchu yn ogystal â budd-dal sy’n  gyfystyr a 100% gwerth y cynnyrch. Felly, fe "all" bob un o’r melinau gwynt yma ennill £500,000 ac mae’r gost yma’n dod allan o’n pocedi ni, rhan ohono mewn modd cuddiedig ar ein biliau trydan, a’r gweddill drwy’r sustem dreth incwm.

Pa fusnes arall fyddai’n cael y fath nawdd am gynhyrchu a gwerthu rhywbeth sydd ddim yn gwneud yr hyn sy’n cael ei addo ar y bocs - ac mae’n gywilyddus fod yna Gymry, rhai sy’n ymwybodol iawn o aneffeithiolrwydd yr anghenfilod metal ‘ma, yn manteisio ar dlodi cymunedau a thlodi cronfeydd sefydliadau Cymreig drwy eu twyllo a’u gwobr wobrwyo i dderbyn y ffermydd gwynt ‘ma yn eu cymunedau heb bryderi dim am y canlyniadau i’r gymuned nac i Gymru. Ac mae’r modd maent yn mynd ati i  wneud hyn yn hynod o sinigaidd a ‘dan-din’. H.y. Os yw un o’r cwmnïau am godi fferm wynt mewn cymuned, maent wedi dysgu, o brofiad, iddi fod yn hanfodol i drefnu cyfarfod cyhoeddus yn y gymuned a sicrhau fod yna ‘wyneb Cymreig’ neu ‘fradwr brodorol’ yno i gyflwyno sioe sleidiau neu ffilm fideo sy’n dangos ychydig o felinau gwynt yn erbyn cefndir o awyr las ar ddiwrnod braf, a ffarmwr yn son am y cymhorthdal blynyddoedd mae ef yn ei dderbyn wrth gael y melinau ar ei dir. Yna, dangosir y ‘cerdyn trympio’, lle cynigir “rhodd ariannol” (sef ein harian ni mewn gwirionedd) i brosiect neu brosiectau cymunedol os caiff y fferm wynt ei gosod yn y gymuned - a bydd gwell siawns i hynny ddigwydd os enillir cefnogaeth y gymuned wrth gwrs.

 Ceir ddim son yn y cyfarfodydd cymunedol yma am yr annibendod fydd yn cael ei greu, am flynyddoedd, ar hyd priffyrdd a lonydd ein gwlad wrth i’r angenfilod enfawr ‘ma gael eu tywys i’w cartrefi newydd ar hyd a lled Cymru. Bydd rhaid lledaenu ffyrdd, newid cylchfannau a rhwygo lonydd cul a chanol pentrefi i wneud lle iddynt. Gweler y safle gwe www.cambrian <http://www.cambrian> - mountains.co.uk  am wybodaeth lawn ac onest (a gaed oddi wrth un cwmni datblygu) parthed yr annibendod sy’n debygol o orfod cymryd lle er mwyn cludo’r melinau ar hyd ffyrdd Cymru.

Does dim son chwaith am y tyllau enfawr fydd angen ei wneud yn y tir, a’r tunelli o  goncrid bydd rhaid tywallt i bob twll er mwyn sicrhau sylfaen digon cryf i ddal melin a all fod yn 600 troedfedd o daldra! A cheir ddim son am y sŵn undonog annioddefol sy’n bodoli ddydd a nos pan mae prop siafftiau, hyd yn oed un o’r melinau yma’n troi - heb sôn am fyddin ohonyn nhw. Ceir ddim son am y ‘golau strob’ sy’n cael ei greu wrth i haul daro ar bob un o’r prop siafftau pan maent yn troi a bod hyn, yn ogystal â’r sŵn annioddefol, yn effeithio ar iechyd pobl.  A cheir ddim son fod yna arolwg wedi amcangyfrif fod yna 350,000 o ystymlod eisoes wedi eu lladd gan felinau gwynt yn ogystal â 21,000 o adar ysglyfaethus a miliynau o adar bach. Ceir ddim son am y peilonau a’r ceblau bydd rhaid eu gosod ar hyd a lled Cymru i drosglwyddo’r ynni a gynhyrchir i grid cenedlaethol Lloegr ac sut all afiechydon fel cancr gynyddu yn sgil hyn a cheir ddim son sut mae’r holl wallgofrwydd yn mynd i drawsnewid Cymru o fod yn wlad hyfryd y gellid ymfalchïo ynddi i fod yn ddiffeithwch marwaidd o felinau gwynt a fydd, mewn amser - unwaith i’r ffynonellau ariannol sychu i fynnu, yn cael eu gadael ar y tir i bydru yn eu gwlâu o goncrit.

Ond yn y cyfamser, o achos nad oes gan ein llywodraeth lipa ym Mae Caerdydd unrhyw reolaeth dros godi melinau gwynt sy’n cynhyrchu dros 50MW o ynni yng Nghymru, ac o achos bod Llywodraeth San Steffan yn benderfynnol o godi 10,000 arall o’r anghenfilod yma ym Mhrydain yn ystod y blynyddoedd nesaf - er gwaethaf y ffaith fod gwledydd eraill yn Ewrop yn rhoi gorau i’w codi,  mae llu o gwmniau ‘eco-gyfalafiaeth’ enfawr fyd eang wedi gweld eu cyfle hwythau i reibio’r coffrau ac wedi troi eu sylw tuag at Gymru fel un o’r gwledydd mwyaf hawdd i’w rheibio. Felly, gweler cwmnïau fel ‘RWE/npower renewables’ sy’n gangen o gwmni Almaeneg RWE/Innology  ac sydd eisoes yn berchen ar fferm wynt Taf Elai ac sydd newydd gael caniatâd (wedi apêl) i godi fferm wynt ar Mynydd y Gwair yng nghyffiniau Abertawe, ‘Scottish & Southern Energy, cwmni sydd a’u bryd ar godi fferm wynt enfawr o 105 o’r melinau mwyaf sy’n bod ar Fynydd Pumlumon a thafliad carreg o safle Hyddgen ble bu i Owain Glyndŵr ennill ei frwydr fawr cyntaf yn erbyn y gelyn yn 1401, y ‘Renewable Development Company, cwmni Albanaidd arall sydd â chyfarwyddwyr Americanaidd ac sydd eisoes wedi codi fferm wynt yng Nghefn Croes - er gwaethaf brwydr hir y trigolion yn ei herbyn am naw mlynedd, ‘Scottish Power Renewables’, sydd a’u bryd ar godi fferm wynt enfawr yng nghoedwigoedd y Dyfnant ym Mhowys. ‘Stratkraf’ y cwmni Norwyaidd enfawr sy’n brysur iawn yn rheibio cenhedloedd bychain drwy’r byd ac sydd wedi prynu cwmni ‘Catamount Cymru Cyf’ allan ac sy’n berchen bellach ar ffermydd gwynt Blaenwern ac Alltwalis ac ar orsaf ynni ‘hydro’ Rheidol wedi iddyn nhw ei hennill ar y farchnad stoc, ac yna ceir ‘United Utilities’ a ‘FIM Sustainable Timber and Energy LP, sydd, ar y cyd, newydd brynu stad enfawr Erfynwy.

Dyna flas, yn unig, o bwy yw perchnogion newydd asedau Cymru a gall y rhestr fynd yn ei flaen gan fod yna 36 0 ffermydd gwynt wedi eu gosod yn barod yng Nghymru ac o leiaf 37 arall ar y ffordd ond dewch i ni droi ein sylw tuag at berchnogion newydd stad enfawr Erfynwy.

Penderfynodd Hafren Trent i ‘werthu’ prydles 125mlynedd ar gyfer daliadau amaethyddol y stad i ‘United Utilities’ a phrydles am yr un cyfnod ar gyfer y goedwig fasnachol i FIM Sustainable Timber & Energy LP. Cwmnïau estronol o Loegr yw’r ddau. Mae’r tir sydd wedi ei ‘werthu’ yn cynnwys gwarchodfeydd natur, ffermydd a chartrefi’r pentrefwyr - sy’n siomedig iawn mai cynigion ‘allanol’ cafodd eu ffafrio yn hytrach na chynnig Rhys Jones, dyn busnes lleol oedd a’i fryd ar gadw’r stad yn nwylo Cymry a’i ddatblygu a’i rheoli mewn modd a fyddai’n creu gwaith i drigolion yr ardal.  Mae trigolion yr ardal, wrth reswm, yn bryderus am ddyfodol eu bywoliaeth a’u tenantiaethau ac wedi’r cyhoeddiad i gadarnhau fod y stad wedi ei ‘werthu’ i estroniaid, galwyd cyfarfod cyhoeddus i drafod yr union bryderon ond ysywaeth, daeth ddim un cynrychiolydd o Hafren Trent, United Utlities na FIM Sustainable Timber and Energy i’r cyfarfod ac mae't trigolion yn parhau mewn tywyllwch parthed eu dyfodol. Blas o’r ymdriniaeth sarhaus a diystyriol gall y trigolion ddisgwyl mae’n amlwg!

Ond beth yn union mae’r cwmnïau estronol yma’n ei wneud a pham prynu Stad Efyrnwy? Mae ‘United Utilities yn darparu dŵr ar gyfer Ogledd Orllewin Lloegr, felly, dyma enghraifft glasurol o un cwmni dŵr estronol enfawr yn ‘gwerthu’ rhan enfawr o Gymru i gwmni dŵr estronol arall. Ydi Cymru a’r Cymry yn mynd i elwa o’r ‘gwerthiant’ mewn unrhyw ffordd? Na yw’r ateb wrth gwrs; byddem yn parhau i dalu'r treth mwyaf ym Mhrydain am ein dŵr ni'n hunain yn union fel ag y rydym wastad wedi gwneud.  Yna, mae’r prynwr arall sef, ‘FIN Sustainable Timber & Energy LP yn brolio fod ganddyn nhw bortffolio fyd eang o goedwigoedd a Ffermydd gwynt. Felly, does dim rhaid bod yn broffwyd i broffwydo beth yw eu cynlluniau nhw ar gyfer y stad!

Ydi, mae’n anghredadwy fod ein gwleidyddion etholedig, y bobl hynny sydd wedi cael eu hethol i warchod Cymru a’i chymunedau yn caniatáu i’r uchod ddigwydd heb wneud unrhyw fath o safiad. Mae’r cyfan yn fater o goncwest y llyfr siec wedi mynd allan o bob rheolaeth ac os na wnaiff ein gwleidyddion a mudiadau Cymreig ymgyrchu’n gadarn i ddiweddu’r ‘gwerthiant’ mawr fyd eang sy’n cymryd lle ar Gymru yn ddi-oed, bydd yna ddim cenedl a ddim cymunedau Cymreig a Chymraeg ar ôl. Byddem yn ddim byd ond rhyw ‘ased’ bychan ddibwys fydd yn cael ei werthu yn ôl ac ymlaen mewn portffolios ar y farchnad stoc fyd eang. Fydd yna ddim angen llywodraeth ym Mae Caerdydd, ddim pwynt i Blaid Cymru, Llais Gwynedd, Y Blaid Gomiwnyddol Gymreig na mudiadau fel Cymdeithas yr Iaith, Cymuned a.y.b., i fodoli.

Mae’r busnes o gynhyrchu ‘ynni adnewyddadwy’ yn fusnes enfawr ac mae’r elfen melinau gwynt o’r busnes yn effeithio ar dirwedd a chymunedau ledled y byd yn ogystal â Chymru ond rhag ofn i neb gamddeall, dwi o blaid cynhyrchu ‘ynni adnewyddadwy’  cyn belled a bod hynny’n cael ei wneud ar raddfa gymunedol a thrwy wneud defnydd o adnoddau naturiol y gymuned yn hytrach na thrwy brosiectau ‘twp’ fel ffermydd gwynt sydd ond yn mynd i fod o elw i gyfalafwyr sy’n poeni dim bod eu gweithredoedd yn dinistrio cymunedau a thirwedd hanesyddol ac amgylcheddol y byd.

Polisïau'r Undeb Ewropeaidd sy’n bennaf gyfrifol am y cyrch neo-wladychol newydd yma ar ein cenedl ni. Yr un polisïau Ewropeaidd hynny sy’n gorchymyn bod rhaid adeiladu stadau enfawr o dai ddiangen ar hyd yr A55 yn y Gogledd ar gyfer y ‘symudiad llwythol’ mae Senedd Ewrop yn ‘mynnu’ sydd i gymryd lle o fewn eu hymherodraeth. Ia, un o’r polisïau Ewropeaidd yma oedd yn ‘gorchymyn’ bod yn rhaid i bob gwlad o fewn yr Undeb gynhyrchu ynni adnewyddadwy, ond y gwleidyddion ym Mae Caerdydd oedd yn gyfrifol am ruthro i dderbyn a gweithredu’r polisi heb gwestiynu nac ystyried y canlyniadau hir dymor ar Gymru - ac iddyn nhw mae’r diolch am hwyluso’r ffordd i gwmnïau cyfalafol fyd eang droi eu sylw ar Gymru fel darn o dir i’w ecsploetio a’i goloneiddio â miloedd o felinau gwynt ac mae hyn yn dod a ni at y sgandal fwyaf oll.

Ymddengys bod 40% o goedwigoedd Cymru dan ofal uniongyrchol y Cynulliad Cymreig ac yn eu heiddgarwch i ruthro’n mlaen a pholisi Senedd Ewrop a San Steffan i lenwi Cymru a ffermydd gwynt, aethant ati i ddewis ardaloedd o Gymru a oedd, yn eu tyb nhw, yn addas ar gyfer Ffermydd Gwynt, heb unrhyw ystyriaeth i dirwedd hanesyddol ac amgylcheddol y safleoedd yma i gychwyn - ond yn ogystal, mae 'na goedwigoedd niferus yn yr ardaloedd yma a ddewiswyd ar gyfer y strategaeth TAN8 bondigrybwyll - fel ag y sydd ym mhob rhan o Gymru, ac mae’r cynulliad yn caniatau i ddatblygwyr melinau gwynt glirio cannoedd o filiynau o’r coed er mwyn gwneud lle i’r melinau gwynt!

Ar wahân i’r ffaith fod ein coedwigoedd yn asedau economaidd gwerthfawr a phwysig, bydd clirio’r coed ohonynt yn newid tirwedd Cymru’n llwyr. Yn ogystal, maent yn hardd yn eu gwylltineb ac yn gynefin i bob math o greaduriaid ac adar, rhai ohonynt yn brin - fel y wiwer goch. Maent yn atyniad i dwristiaid ac i gerddwyr ac yn frith o lwybrau cerdded a merlota sy’n bod ers canrifoedd. Maent yn rhan annatod o’n cenedl ni yn yr un modd ag y mae trwyn yn rhan annatod ar wyneb, ac mae ein gwleidyddion ym Mae Caerdydd yn eu haberthu ar allor gwallgofrwydd!

Petai hyn yn digwydd yng nghoedwigoedd glaw'r Amazon, byddai pawb a’i gi yn cael eu cythruddo ac yn codi pac i fynd allan yno i achub y goedwig, ond lle mae Cymru yn y cwestiwn, caniateir rhydd hunt i unrhyw un ddod yma i reibio a dinistrio.

Mae ‘Plaid’, wrth gwrs, o blaid codi melinau gwynt, gyda sawl aelod amlwg yn gwneud arian da iawn ar gefnau'r gweddill ohonom, ond mae’n hen bryd i ofyn y cwestiwn mawr, pam nad yw ein Plaid Genedlaethol wedi bod ar flaen y gad yn gwarchod buddiannau, adnoddau a thirwedd dreftadol ac amgylcheddol Cymru? Mae ‘Plaid’ wedi gollwng y ‘Cymru’ o’u henw ers tro felly, ‘Plaid’ i bwy ac i beth ydi hi erbyn hyn? Dwi am gynnig eu bod yn newid yr enw eto, i ‘PLAID CYWILYDD’ o achos mae’n gywilyddus o beth iddyn nhw wedi bod yn llwybro’r ‘siop siafins’ ‘na ym Mae Caerdydd am dros ddeuddeg mlynedd ac wedi bod yn rheoli mewn clymblaid yno am y pum mlynedd diwethaf heb wneud dim i rwystro San Steffan rhag llenwi Cymru â ‘melltith’ y melinau gwynt.  yn hytrach, maent wedi eu cofleidio yn yr un modd maent wedi cyd-fynd a’r cynllun i adeiladu’r holl dai diangen (nad oes modd gan Cymry i'w prynu) ar hyd ffordd yr A55. Maent yn fud parthed y ffaith bod ein coedwigoedd yn cael eu clirio a’r melinau gwynt yn cael eu trywanu i ddaear cysegredig ein gwlad yn eu lle, a gwnaed dim i rwystro stad Efyrnwy rhag cael ei ‘werthu’ i estroniaid cyfalafol.

Os nad yw ‘PLAID CYWILYDD’ yn barod i ymladd "o ddifrif" dros sicrhau bod Cymru yn cael llwyr reolaeth ar ei holl asedau cyn i’r cyfan ddiweddu yn nwylo ysglyfaethus, yna, does dim pwynt iddi fodoli.

Mae tri mis o ymgynghori statudol yn cymryd lle rŵan cyn i’r trefniadau ar gyfer gwerthiant stad Efyrnwy gael eu cwblhau yn yr Hydref. Beth am i ‘BLAID CYWILYDD’ ddangos i’r genedl eu bod o ddifrif ynglŷn â gwarchod buddiannau ac adnoddau Cymru drwy, fel man cychwyn, drefnu rali genedlaethol, , yn Llanwddyn, i ddangos, yn y lle cyntaf, eu cefnogaeth i’r gymuned yno ac, yn ail,  i ddangos i weddill o Gymru eu bod o ddifrif ynglŷn â gwarchod adnoddau Cymru a’u bod am arwain ymgyrch genedlaethol i rwystro’r ‘gwerthiant’ yma i estroniaid rhag mynd trwodd.

Wedi’r cwbl, Tir comin oedd y mwyafrif o stad Efyrnwy cyn i Lywodraeth Lloegr basio deddf yn 1880 a roddodd yr hawl i Gyngor Lerpwl adeiladu’r gronfa ddŵr enfawr yno. Ac er gwaethaf gwrthwynebiad cryf y gymuned, dymchwelwyd eu cartrefi a chwalwyd y gymuned - fel ag sydd wedi digwydd droeon yng Nghymru ers hynny.  Daeth y gronfa ddŵr, a’r stad, i ddwylo Hafren Trent yn 1974, ac maent yn ddigon haerllug i feddwl bod ganddyn nhw’r hawl i’w gwerthu!

Mae’n rhaid trosglwyddo'r neges yn uchel ac yn glir i Hafren Trent, United Utilities a ‘FIM Sustainable Timber & Energy LP’ mae Cymru sy’n berchen ar Stad Efyrnwy ac er gwaethaf y ffaith fod Lerpwl a Hafren Trent wedi bod yn dwyn y dŵr ers 1889, mae’r Cymry a’u bryd ar gymryd y stad a'r gronfa ddŵr yn ôl a does ganddym ddim unrhyw fwriad i dalu iddyn nhw nac i unrhyw goloneiddiwr cyfalafol arall am ein heiddo ein hunain!. Os caiff y cwmniau uchod eu crafangau arni, byddant fawr ddim o amser yn clirio coedwigoedd i wneud lle i ffermydd gwynt - a gall ‘PLAID CYWILYDD’ ddim gadael i hynny ddigwydd eto o bosib?

Mae’n hen bryd iddyn nhw arwain y gweddill o Gymru mewn gwrthsafiad i’r fath rheibio sy’n cymryd lle yng Nghymru a cheisio, o leiaf, a gwarchod yr ychydig sydd ar ôl - yn union fel ag y mae llwyth dewr Indiad y Mapuche yn ei wneud ers blynyddoedd ym Mhatagonia wrth iddyn nhw ymladd brwydrau ffyrnig yn erbyn y cwmni adnewyddadwy mawr ysglyfaethus STRATKRAF ia, yr union gwmni sydd yn ysglyfaethu yng Nghymru erbyn hyn!

Cawn weld os wnaiff ‘PLAID CYWILYDD’ ddod oddi ar y ffens am unwaith ac ymladd o ddifrif i amddiffyn Stad Efyrnwy ac i gael ein hasedau yn ôl ond peidiwch, da chi, a dal eich gwynt mewn gobaith bod hyn yn debygol o ddigwydd, os yw Efyrnwy i’w hachub, mae’n rhaid i  bob mudiad a chymdeithas Gymreig weithredu ar bob ffrynt i  rhwystro’r ‘gwerthiant’. Mae’n Haf, felly beth am i fudiadau Cymreig fynd ati i sefydlu ‘GWERSYLL  AMDDIFFYN’ ar y stad a chynhyrchu digonedd o blacardiau a baneri gyda sloganau addas, fel modd o daro’r neges adref. Gellir yn ogystal gwneud defnydd da o'r amser a dreilir yno drwy cydweithio i adeiladu pentref o ‘dai unnos’ ar y stad a gellir cynnal Gŵyl Roc a Gwerin ‘CYMRYD Y TIR YN ÔL’ fel modd i godi arian ar gyfer yr ymgyrch yma yn ogystal â’r ymgyrchoedd sydd i ddod; o achos mae angen hel y cyfalafwyr melinau gwynt ‘ma allan o Gymru unwaith ac am byth a chychwyn mentrau ynni adnewyddadwy addas yn ein cymunedau, rhai sydd yn nwylo ein cymunedau ac er budd pob unigolyn o fewn i bob cymuned.

Bydd angen ymgyrchu’n gyson yn ystod y blynyddoedd nesaf i rwystro’r melinau rhag cyrraedd y safleoedd sydd wedi derbyn caniatâd cynllunio ar eu cyfer, a bydd angen gwarchod ein coedwigoedd rhag unrhyw fygythiadau pellach iddyn nhw.

Pa fudiadau a chymdeithasau Cymreig sydd a'r un gwytnwch â llwyth y Mapuchi i arwain y gad os gwn i? Os na wneir safiad nawr yn erbyn y barwniaid ‘adnewyddadwy’ ysglyfaethus newydd yma, yna, bydd yn rhaid i chwi, rhyw ddydd, edrych i fyw llygaid eich plant a phlant eich plant, a gwybod, i chi aros yn fyd ac yn ddiymadferth a gwneud dim i achub eu treftadaeth. Y dreftadaeth hynny yw Cymru, hwyrach na wnawn ei gwerthfawrogi nes bydd hi wedi darfod a bod.

Siân Ifan

“…gwae nyni Gymry, os yn ein llwfrdra moesol a’n materoliaeth bwdr y rhown yr hawl hon i neb bwy bynnag i sathru ar degwch bro ein mebyd”

Hen Dy Ffarm.
D.J. Williams 1953



Tuesday, 26 July 2011

THREE LETTERS TO WESTERN MAIL ON THE WINDMILLING OF WALES ISSUES AND RESPONSES TO THEM.

Three of my letters have, recently, been published in the Western Mail and two of them must have 'really annoyed' pro wind turbine lovers as they responded with a lot of 'hot air' which, of course, provided me with a wonderfiul opportunity to respond and to reveal some further facts as to why we must fight against the 'windmilling of Cymru'.



See sequence of letters below. beginning with letter no 1 from me then a response. Then, a response to the response from me. followed by another letter of 'attack' and a final letter of response to that attack from me.  


Sir - Congratulations to the people of Trefaldwyn for their deserved victory in getting Powys County Council to finally realize the folly of the windmills of mass destruction of our countryside. Let us now hope that the rest of Cymru also sees sense and follows the guidance of Powys and that our ‘so called’ government in Bae Caerdydd acts as a ‘true’ government should and refuses to participate in Westminster’s latest strategy of colonial exploitation in Cymru.


The ball now is firmly back in the court of the Welsh Assembly Government and it is they, along with the Welsh MEP’s, MP’s and Welsh Lords, that should be opening up the “2nd front” in London whilst Anti Wind Farms groups in Cymru must unite in order to continue with the campaign to rid our nation of this scourge once and for all. Towards achieving this end, we must awaken our people to the horrifying truth in regards to what effect the TAN 8 strategy will have on our countryside; we must awaken our people to fully realise what is being done to our motherland in the name of green imperialism and eco colonialism.  


Siân Ifan
CEO Embassy Glyndŵr



SIR – There is so much wrong with the sentiments expressed in the letter from Sian Ifan of Embassy Glyndŵr (July 5) that I scarcely know where to start.
Firstly, the outright opposition to wind farms. I can only say to Sian, wake up and open your eyes. Fossil fuels are running out – a report in The Ecologist (June 28) indicates that peak oil is coming even sooner than was thought.
Like so many wind farm opponents, Sian utterly fails to consider that the current provision of our energy is unsustainable or to recognise that alternatives need to be found and soon. I do not say that wind farms are the only solution, but we need renewable sources to provide a much greater proportion of our energy in the very near future.
Secondly, Sian wants to protect natural beauty and I’m in full agreement there. But if Sian wants to see “mass destruction” then look at the tarnished earth website (tarnishedearth.co.uk).
The pictures are also on show in St Mary Street in Cardiff and they show the utter desolation being created in Alberta as oil companies lay waste to our planet in a desperate attempt to scrape the bottom of the oil barrel. Compared to that, wind farms and pylons are a small price to pay.
If Sian is happy for other parts of the world to be devastated just to maintain the status quo a little longer, this is nimbyism of the highest order.
Lastly, the attempt by Sian to use anti-English sentiment to play a political game over energy supply is utterly cynical and revolting. We need energy from renewable sources; to reject any way forward that will take Wales to an even worse economic situation than it is in now.
MARTIN RENDLE

SIR – I am very aware we need to find suitable renewable energy for Cymru (“A small price to pay”, Letters, July 12) but churning up every acre of our nation so gigantic and next-to-useless wind turbines can be stabbed into the earth of our motherland is definitely not the answer as has been proved in other European countries that took the lead with onshore wind.
Let us take Denmark as one example, a country that has 6,000 turbines for a population of five million people. They have ceased to support new on-shore wind developments because they have learnt the hard way that wind is unreliable.
Too much wind means that the turbines have to be switched off as wind cannot be stored; then no wind means that they’re totally useless but, subsidies are still paid to wind farm developers and in Denmark’s case, businesses and consumers, since 2005, have paid more than £620m in subsidies through their electricity bills which are the highest in Europe.
Why should our nation, again, have to pay the price with capitalist exploitation of its communities and expropriation of its resources.
We have, continuously, for centuries, had to suffer the “rape of our fair country” by the likes of Anglo-Norman lords such as the Beaufort land-grabbing family and the copper, Iron, coal and slate masters.
We already have more than 400 turbines in Cymru with planning applications for many more being placed before Cymric councils by large wind farm developers through their Welsh collaborators. I, for one, am not prepared to stand by and watch an “absurd” and worthless strategy turn our beautiful nation into a wasteland of cemeteries for these expensive and useless turbines and their pylon infrastructures just so a few capitalist parasites can become billionaires on the backs of the “Gwerin”.
The Gwerin will, again, be footing the cost of it all for years to come through continual rises in their electricity bills – while the Duke of Beaufort will get £7m a year in subsidies for having 19 turbines on the 4,000 acres of Land that his Anglo Norman ancestors gained around Swansea.
And no, I am not “happy for other parts of the world to be devastated” either Mr Rendle. And they needn’t be – any more than Cymru need be. There are better choices of renewable energy available and as Joel Rawson from the Centre for Alternative Technology has argued, these other and better choices need to be explored in more detail – and I would add, adopted as “wiser” strategies that would benefit indigenous peoples everywhere.
I always find it puzzling when Western liberal environmentalists living in Cymru can empathise and sympathise so much with communities in danger of being destroyed in other parts of the world but cannot see the same dangers in regards to the nation they’ve chosen to live in.
I don’t think it’s me who needs to wake up and open my eyes, Mr Rendle.
SIÂN IFAN
CEO Embassy Glyndwr



Windynimbyism
 SIR – Has Sian Ifan ever had a Lee Enfield pushed into her face or starved on a rubber plantation (Letters, July 16)?
Probably not – but then those who oppose wind farms seem to have no problem using words like colonialism, imperialism , rape and holocaust with no idea or experience of the reality of these things.
The planet is heating up because of the CO² we are putting into the atmosphere and the oil is running out. If Ms Ifan can’t see that then I suggest she enter a process called “growing up”.
If she is so concerned about the landscape and wildlife why just wind farms, why not opencast mines and factory farms?
Those who oppose wind farms want to use energy but can’t face the consequences of doing so.
She can of course give us all an alternative that she is prepared to stick by and champion when it comes to opposition but one thing is intrinsic to windynimbyism: despite many requests no alternative is ever forthcoming.
Let’s make Wales a sustainable society by building the turbines and other renewable technology here where we can address the issues of poverty and climate change at the same time.
Green collar economy or rural la la land (propped up by EU subsidy) – easy choice to make methinks.....
NIGEL BAKER
Cardiff


My Reply to the  above when  published in the Western Mail of Saturday 23 July had been shortened to suit but I would like you all to see the full version that was sent for publishing, as follows.


Sir - Re letter by Nigel Baker (19 July 2011) entitled 'Windynimybism'.
No, Mr Baker, I do not know what it's like to have had a Lee Enfield stuck in my face or to be starved on a rubber plantation? But I can honestly state that my whole life has been an experience of colonialism, imperialism and rape of my nation, can you state likewise?


I am the daughter of a quarry worker and the granddaughter of a coal miner. Many of my friends are also from slate or coal mining backgrounds and our families have suffered over three centuries of English ‘slate masters’ as well as native Anglo-Cambro coal capitalists. Both my grandfather and my father died in their early fifties, one of silicosis, the other of emphysema. They worked hard in dangerous conditions for poverty wages and there was no ‘compensation’ for their families when they died; so I think I have more experience of the “reality of these things”  than a 'Green fascist' blowing enough hot air that can only add to Global Warming not help decrease it?
  
If you seriously care about the effects of the CO² that is being put into the atmosphere, then you should consider the enormous C02 emissions that is being generated as a result of the constructing of these turbines through the mining and the smelting of the metals used for their construction, through the carbon-intensive cement needed for their huge concrete foundations, and through the building and widening of roads needed to take them on site - not to mention the releasing of immense quantities of CO2 from the peat bogs where many Wind farms are built.  Yet, the English government intends to spend £100billion on the construction of 10,000 or more of these turbines in the next few years plus another £40billion on connecting them all to the national grid to ensure that we hit the 15% renewable target by 2020.


60% of Cymru is within the TAN 8 area and we know that there are planning applications for the construction of Wind farms put forward in areas than are not within the TAN 8 designated area so one can immediately envisage what Cymru will look like in a few years time if this ‘lunacy’ is allowed to continue.


Every community in Cymru has got more than enough in natural resources to provide the needed ‘green’ energy for its community, and If you would like to contact me Mr Baker, I can show you proof of how an individual in my home town of Blaenau Ffestiniog has been doing just that for the last thirty five years but no, our ‘London masters’ have dictated that our nation must be ripped apart, again, and every acre filled by gigantic turbines and their pylon infrastructures to provide electricity for the U.K.’s hungry national grid, and as has been the case with our water, they’ll take it and make the Welsh Gwerin pay for the development of it through hidden costs in their electricity bills just as we’ve had to pay the highest water rates in the U.K. for decades for our own water!


And if you seriously care about the effects of war Mr Baker, please wake up to the realisation that global corporate international capitalism really does needs a plentiful supply of ‘cheap’ energy to power its armaments industry. Yes Mr Baker, I’m referring to that armament industry that is currently supplying the bombs that is being dropped on three Islamic nations and that will continue to supply arms and planes to tyrants all over the Third World to enable them to further wars so they may continue to exploit native peoples of their natural resources.


Your response to my letter Mr Baker is just the sort of hysteria we expect to witness from such arrogant 'green fascism' as increasingly, the fallacy in regards to the effectiveness of wind farms is challenged and exposed world wide. Westminster is well aware of this fallacy which is why they are currently considering the advice of Centrica and other energy companies that 17 gas -fired power stations, at a cost of a further £10billion to the tax payer, will be needed by 2020 to provide electricity to back up wind power when the turbines don’t produce or when they over produce and have to be turned off!.


I am not a ‘nimby’ Mr Baker; I do not regard Cymru as my back yard but rather as a beautiful garden that I must assist to protect from the swine that will devour it so that it will survive as a legacy to hand down to future generations. And, for the record, I do oppose ‘open Cast mining’ and have supported Native Americans in their campaigns against ‘strip mining’. I support the campaign against badger culls and most certainly oppose factory farming and all forms of cruelty to animals and peoples where ever they occur.
Siân Ifan
C.E.O. Embassy Glyndŵr.


Friday, 22 July 2011

BATTLE OF VYRNWY SITE REGISTRATION 2010 FOLLOWED BY 2011 DAL DY DIR - 'CAMP GLYNDWR' - VYRNWY ESTATE - CYMRWCH Y TIR YN OL 2011 - MAYBE?



2010 Battle of Vyrnwy 24 Mis Medi 1400 
Embassy Glyndwr Battlefield Registration.


BRWYDRAU GLYNDWR: May 2011

brwydrauglyndwr.blogspot.com/2011_05_01_archive.html - Cached
31 May 2011 – Information on Owain Glyndwr, his Generals and Captains. The Strategies... THE BATTLE OF VYRNWY 24 MEDI 1400: 'TARIAN GLYNDWR. ...

Following Battle Field Registration Embassy Glyndwr placed placards protesting sale of Vyrnwy Estate by Severn Trent.










Vyrnwy Estate Camp Glyndwr 24 Medi 2011?


A Field of Dreams - But Would Patriots Be There?


If no Camp Glyndwr we call upon Pobl Glyndwr to visit Vyrnwy Estate to place more protest placards about and place tributes at site of Battle. Pin Ivy Leaves with messages to Glyndwr Trail path sign and fence near by as a commemorative gesture.



Monday, 18 July 2011

TARIAN GLYNDWR WINDMILL PLANTATION WATCHING NEWS AND INFORMATION UP DATE On Radio Cymru Interviews Today and Letters to Western Mail and Reply.



  1. Pwysig: At 1:15 today 'Wythnos Gwilym Owen's Radio Cymru programme will have a discussion on 'Turbine Terrorism' with  myself and Lyn Jenkins opposing 'wind mill plantations' and Dr Iolo ap Gwynn (Chairman of CAT Trustees) who, throughout the item,  interrupts views opposite to his own 'turbine treachery', whilst Eryl Vaughan/Fychan chief Welsh collaborator of renewable - Cymru - Wind Power Wales was allowed to get away with recording his interview before the programme so that he could not be publically questioned as to his position in all this and, not least, into his 'corruption' of Welsh culture in interest of big business - Corporate Global Capitalism, an international menace hiding behind  a mask of 'friendly environmentalism' but which is, in reality, 'green Imperialism and 'eco colonialisn' in a weak and defencless Post Industrial Cymru.



    BBC - BBC Radio Cymru Programmes - Wythnos Gwilym Owen




    www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007rl7q - Cached
    Sesiwn arall o holi a stilio, procio a phryfocio yng nghwmni Gwilym Owen. Gwilym Owenwith his unique view of the ... Monday, 13:15 on BBC Radio Cymru ...

    You can listen to the discussion via the above link but should you miss it, you can access via ipod for the duration of the week.

    I have since, gone through the motions and complained to the BBC and to Ofcom about the blatant  'bias' in the aforementioned programme although, that won't have any effect of course and Gwilym Owen would not care 'two hoots' if it did as he was retiring that week with a big fat golden handshake no doubt!

    For further update re Embassy Glyndŵr's participation in this Anti Windmilling of Wales campaign, see below letters in Western Mail - and please add you reply to the debate:
www.walesonline.co.uk/.../western-mail.../tuesday-5-july-2011-914... - Cached
5 Jul 2011 – SIR – Predictably, a Western Mail poll shows a majority who believe the ... in the name of green imperialism and eco colonialism. SIÂN IFAN ...

www.thefreelibrary.com › ... › July 5, 2011 - Cached
5 Jul 2011 – Free Online Library: Green imperialism; & COMMENT DEBATE YOUR LETTERS TO THE NATIONAL NEWSPAPER OF WALES.(Letters) by "Western Mail(Cardiff, Wales)"; News, ... SIAN IFAN IFAN Institut Fondamental d'afrique Noire ...

Further comments and facts and figures galore for and against windmill farms might go on unabated but as far as Embassy Glyndŵr is concerned, this is a Welsh 'National Issue' and we look at and react from an anti - colonial position which rests on the platform and programe of that we seek to deny any oppression of our peoples, exploitation of our communities or any expropriation of our  land and its natural resources either by England or by International Global Coorperate Capitalism, be it by Green Imperialism and Eco Colonialism or whatever other form the new Cheque Book Conquest may take.

In the case of Windmill Farms, we further oppose their despoilation and devestation of our countryside and the desecration of our heritage in the landscape. This is not a matter of 'NIMBYISM'; as far as we are concerned,  all of Cymru is our beautiful and, in places, wild and dramatic 'precious garden', a garden sculptured by its rich history, to be protected and well cared for as a legacy to hand on to future generations.


STOP PRESS - BLADES OF FURY - See Below:

www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/ - Cached
Sunday Times. Sunday July 17, 2011. Home Section Home · News Section .... Blades of fury. Matt Rudd. Look out of your window. Are they there yet, ...

Sunday, 3 July 2011

Translation of letter published in Cymraeg in the Cymro on Friday last (July 1st) concerning Windpower Wales bribing the National Eisteddfod, the Urdd Eisteddfod and MYM.

The Cymraeg version is on the Galwad Glyndŵr blog. Here's a link:  http://galwadglyndwr.blogspot.com/2011/07/taflu-llwch-i-lygaid-y-cymry-cwmniau.html

Dear Editor,

The truth is finally dawning on countries within the European Union that dependency on wind power as an answer to future energy needs is as daft and futile as attempting to fill a bucket with water when that bucket has a gaping hole in it.

Holland has already abandoned its EU renewable energy target, announcing that it is to slash its annual subsidy by billions of Euros; and France is currently reviewing theirs as UNESCO looks on with a keen eye as that body is, rightfully, concerned about heritage sites and their associated historical environment in France.

But when it comes to our small nation, Westminster has, arrogantly, stated that they have the right to set up Wind Farms on every acre of  Welsh land should they wish to do so, regardless of any historical, cultural or environmental attributes concerned. So, we can look forward to years of having to suffer our main and minor roads, towns and villages being blocked by these monstrosities as they are being transported to every part of Cymru before they are finally stabbed into the earth of our motherland at the sites of their new home.

There will be no end to this nightmare until every bit of open land has been ripped up and filled up by these alien monsters – and then, we are expected to live amongst them – and who in their right minds would want to – not to mention visit our motherland, that was before this current ravaging, still beautiful despite the ravaging of the past.

If this ‘absurd’ strategy is allowed to continue in Wales, in time, there will be no living Welsh communities left; who would want to live in them? There will be no sound of children playing and laughing in the yards of the closed down schools. There will be no bird song as there will be no birds - apart from headless ones, and hardly any wild life. All that Visit Wales will have as attractions on their promotion literature will be castles, drowned communities, hundreds of Wind Farms and an endless pylon infrastructure.

Yes, the picture for the future is both horrifying and sad – and one that could still be avoided if the Welsh Assembly in Bae Caerdydd had enough backbone to say NO!...ENOUGH IS ENOUGH –especially considering that even Westminster has now had to face the raw fact that wind power is totally unpredictable and therefore is totally ineffective, with the subsidies being paid out to the developers often amounting more than the energy being produced – and, if that isn’t bad enough, it has transpired that Westminster is now being forced to consider the advice of their own Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and energy companies such as Centrica (owners of British Gas) that 17 gas-fired plants worth about £10 billion will be needed by 2020.

It is intended for these  gas-powered stations to stand idle for most of the time, but to be there as a backup to the wind turbines at times when they just do not work and do not produce the energy they’re meant to.

What kind of madness is that? Of course,  It is us the taxpayer that will have to pay the cost of the necessary subsidies needed to keep these mostly idle plants on standby; even though we’re already paying towards the cost of the wind turbine development through hidden costs in our energy bills.
But, saddest thing about all this in regards to Cymru is that a ‘Cymro’, a past activist of the Welsh Language Society, is a wind farm developer that’s playing a leading role in this latest hideous ravaging of our motherland. Eryl Vaughan (aka Fychan) is the ‘Welsh face’ behind the development of these unsightly and useless wind farms all over Cymru and without any doubt, he and his company Windpower Wales knows exactly how ineffective they really are and, what long term effect they will have on Cymru.

The bad news does not end there. I have to sadly reveal that Eryl Vaughan and Windpower Wales is also busily at work bribing Cymric national institutions and that the National Eisteddfod, the Urdd Eisteddfod and MYM (the Cymric nursery school movement) have all already accepted a bite of their poisonous apple in the form of ‘sponsorships’. These ‘sponsorships’ make the Developers out to be  ‘good people’ eager to help Cymric communities but in reality of course, The Wind farm companies need to carry out this form of ‘bribery’ in order to win the support of the Cymry throughout Cymru for the times when they submit their applications to develop these wind farms all over Cymru. What’s really very ironic and sad is that institutions that exist in order to strengthen and promote the Cymric language and culture and Cymric way of life, are unwittingly ‘hoodwinked into taking a bite from the poisonous apple that is being offered to them, and by doing so, will undoubtedly, in time, contribute towards the destruction of those very elements of Welshness that they have protected and nourished for centuries.

Having been prewarned, let us hope that no other Welsh institutions or movements are ‘hoodwinked’ in the same way and that we will not witness the aforementioned institutions ever again biting from poisonous apples.

Siân Ifan

Saturday, 25 June 2011

DIM FFERMYDD GWYNT YNG NGHENEDL GLYNDŴR! NO WINDFARMS IN GLYNDŴR'S NATION! THE MACHYNLLETH PROTEST AND OTHER NEWS.



The Owain Glyndŵr Centre at Machynlleth has recieved £350,000 from the Welsh Assembly Government through their 'in house' Heritage Department 'Cadw' to provide a new exhibition on the life and times of Prince Owain Glyndŵr for the centre. The Welsh Minister Carwyn Jones had accepted an invitation to unveil a plaque to mark the opening of the new exhibition and his name had been engraved onto the plaque as the AM minister that would do the honours but, in the days leading up to the opening, Carwyn Jones pulled out and sent his deputy, Alun Davies, up to Machynlleth on the 18th to do the deed.

Now, I went to the trouble of sending packages of information (via snail mail) to seventeen 'Against Wind Farm' groups in Cymru prior to the intended official re-opening of the Owain Glyndŵr Centre at Machynlleth on the 18th as I saw it as a great opportunity for a Glyndŵr type guerrilla protest in regards of the intended Windmilling of Wales. Carwyn Jones had obviously got wind of the intended protest, pulled out and sent his deputy instead. Nevertheless, It was still worth protesting in my opinion but only about 20 wind warriors turned up! Those that did turn up deserve to be praised for that and for standing their ground in the cold until 3pm. Yes, 3pm, as the Welsh Assembly had (as the day went along) changed the time from the scheduled 2pm to 3pm in the hope that any protestors would drift away. But no, we all stood our ground and made our message well and truly heard by him when he was about to leave in his chauffaur driven car - and despite the lie given in a 'smug' statement to the Cambrian News by 'Plaid renegade' now Labour man Alun Davies AM that the protestors "were delighted to hear Carwyn Jones's statement about his intention to try to limit the number of Wind Farms in Wales". I was one of the protestors, and I made it clear to him that we did not want any Wind Farms in Glyndŵr's lands. I also tried to get him to commit to working towards ridding Cymru of the TAN 8 policy; of course, he wouldn't commit himself to working towards that aim and I never heard any protestor there stating their "delight" at Carwyn Jones's statement!

Not wanting to disrupt the 're-opening' proceedings, we had all decided to launch the protest on his departure from the site and although the group of protestors may have been small, compared to the big protest that had taken place in Bae Caerdydd a few weeks ago, it was carried out and covered the front page of the Cambrian News. That's a result!

I totally disagree with those that are unwilling to launch such 'Glyndŵr type guerilla surprise protest raids "just incase they won't be well attended" If that apathetic attitude is adopted and allowed to prevail in Cymru, then we will never win this fight or any other fight against the injustices doled out to our people and our communities. With such in mind, let us remember the 'declaration of Arbroath which states... "as long as but a hundred of us  remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule".

O.K. We did not have a hundred of us at Machynlleth last Saturday but could, easily, have done if the 17 Wind Warrior groups that I had sent mailings to had sent just a few of their members to represent their group and if more Cymric 'patriots' had turned up! But you get the drift.

We at Embassy Glyndŵr have always made it clear that we regard the whole Windmilling of Wales issue as a National Issue. This is the latest episode in a blatant colonial exploitation and ravaging of our nation. Not an acre of our beautiful Welsh landscape will be spared from being torn apart and filled with gigantic windmills and pylons  to provide energy for English industry and yes, for English capitalism so that they can produce goods cheaply to sell it off for vast profits World wide! That will be the end of our communities and way of life. The final curtain for Cymru - unless all patriots wake up now and man the barracades!

Our campaign against this must be an united one that stretches all over Cymru because all areas of Cymru will be 'sold off' in due course. Large demonstrations such as the great one that took place in Bae Caerdydd is not going to be possible very often but Glyndŵr guerilla - 'Flying Protests' such as in Machynlleth last Saturday are and can be carried out at short notice anytime, anywhere.  That strategy will wear out the likes of the 'Turbine Traitors' and Windmilling of Wales Merchants.

Cymry...Cofiwch Cytundeb Arbroath a cofiwch wneud eich rhan chi i achub eich cenedl chi!

Please read the following paragraphs written by the BBC Political Editor Betsan Powys on the BBC blog:

"The UK government, if I've read this right, appear to have blown out of the water Carwyn Jones' demand for the number of windfarms in mid Wales to be limited to the targets set by the Welsh government.

Only days ago the First Minister accused the coalition government of giving us all "a slap in the face" for refusing to devolve powers over major wind energy installations. The suggestion in return was that Mr Jones was guilty of some pretty unsbutle posturing.
But more powers or not, the Welsh government could - and did - announce last week that in future, existing planning guidelines on the number of windfarms should be regarded as an upper limit. In other words developments in mid Wales, to the delight of local campaginers, would be restricted

Game over?

No. For one thing, this change of emphasis/heart/direction in Cardiff Bay came a full six days before the final, definitive energy planning guidance by the UK government was announced, following several months of consultation.The National Policy Statement on Renewables, published this morning by the Department of Energy and Climate Change is the final document that will guide all applications for major renewable projects such as large wind farms. In it, the UK government says that Welsh planning policy will "provide important information to applicants of nationally significant energy infrastructure projects" (such as wind farms over 50MW in capacity).

But - and this is the kind of 'but' that makes a big difference - it goes on to say: "Applicants should explain in their applications to the Infrastructure Planning Commission how their proposals fit with the guidance and support its targets or, alternatively, why they depart from them."Whether an application conforms to the guidance or the targets will not, in itself, be a reason for approving or rejecting the application." Doesn't that imply that the Infrastructure Planning Commission will be allowed to approve windfarms even if the WG target in TAN 8 has already been reached?It does to me. If it does to the Welsh Government too, I'll let you know. What's the follow-up to a slap in the face?

UPDATE

Here's a kick in the shins - but from the Westminster end of the debate. Despite what Carwyn Jones said last week, a source points out, the existing planning guidance around windfarms in Wales remains unamended. Carwyn Jones's statement about upper limits is all well and good they suggest but legally, it amounts to what? I'll use the expression 'a row of beans'. They used one that was more pithy, granted but less polite. I know he's the First Minister but "with all due respect to him, he's not Napoleon".

In other words until Welsh ministers "have the bottle" to scrap the current guidance - TAN 8 - and come up with something better in its place, protesters shouldn't be hoodwinked and buy the argument that the enemy is in Westminster, not Cardiff Bay. Given there are several windfarm applications currently proposed to the Welsh government as well as others likely to come before the Infrastructure Planning Commission, it's no surprise that neither side wants end up a loser in this particular battle". (Powys, Betsan. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/correspondents/betsanpowys/)

As you can see from the above, Carwyn Jones knew damn well, when he made the announcemnt that he would  demand from his London bosses for the number of windfarms in mid Wales to be limited to the targets set by the Welsh government, that he didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of achieving that aim - as the final, definitive energy planning guidance by the UK government had already been decided on, following months of consultation. He made his announcement and played the part, being filmed at the London Cabinet making his 'demand' knowing full well what the answer would be but, he hoped that this would be enough to take the wrath of protestors from his door and that attention would turn to Westminster instead. But, I say NO!NO!NO! The Welsh Assembly insists it is now a Government with powers so, as Betsan Powys rightly states

 "until Welsh ministers "have the bottle" to scrap the current guidance - TAN 8 - and come up with something better in its place, protesters shouldn't be hoodwinked and buy the argument that the enemy is in Westminster, not Cardiff Bay". 

Let's not forget for a moment that the "so called" government in Bae Caerdydd has been elected by the Cymric electorate to safeguard our interest and the interests of our communities and that of the Cymric nation as a whole. They are in privileged positions and are paid extremely well for doing this job and It's time they earned their pay. If they want to 'crow' that they are administering a Welsh government well, let them govern - here in Wales, putting the welfare of the Welsh nation and its people first and foremost by stating loud and clear to the Westminster Government that they will say a loud and resounding NO! to any U.K. policy that is going to be detremental to Cymru - and they can start with TAN 8. Until they do, carry out large scale protests at Welsh Assembly Departments when such is possible and Glyndŵr type guerilla protests at every given opportunity. Make their lives very uncomfortable until they get the message and put the people and the communities of Cymru first. All of Cymru must unite to carry out these actions in every part of Wales.   

 An anti Windmill person called Owain posted the following statement on the MAP (Montgomeryshire Against Pylons) comments page  on 22 Mehefin:



Have not posted before, but an avid reader of MAP commentries and totally against TAN8 / National Grid proposals, moreover, destruction of Montgomeryshire countryside and communities. On that, can I just draw to people’s attention through shock and disgust, that a national institution namely The National Eisteddfod, an organisation that strongly represents Welsh culture, folklore, history and community to name but a few is working in partnership/sponsorship with…get this…Wind Power Wales !! Unbelievable what? The National Eisteddfod fully supports and promotes the benefits / ideals of Wind Power Wales, endorsed by no other than Eisteddfod Director(s). How ironic and pathetic it is that the Eisteddfod organisation / national institution that alledgedly supports, promotes, and represents many aspects of Welsh community life (young and old), culture, folklore and ideals is helping to potentially destroy the very heart of it’s existence ……. communities and way of life ! This bombshell should be exposed, moreover, re-evaluate the ideals and principles of an organisation that embodies Welsh culture and communities. This may be old news, but had to put over my disgust and outrage. Be interested to know opinions.

My comment/reply below: 

I agree with Owain and would suggest that a campaign does need to be launched against the National Eisteddfod for this collaboration but also, do realise, that this is only the tip of the Iceburg. It is becoming more and more obvious that the ‘turbine terrorists’ with their ‘windmills of mass destruction’ plans for Cymru have been very busy cultivating our ‘crachach’, and appointing ‘Cymraeg speaking front men’ such as ‘one time’ Cymdeithas yr Iaith activist and Plaid Cymru member Eryl Vaughan being one of three that I, personally, know of. Also, in many ‘Cymraeg circles’ there is a black propaganda campaign in operation that makes out that it is only ‘Incomers’ only that are opposed to windmills and that allowing ‘Cymraeg speaking’ farmers to use land for windmills helps subsidise them and thus enables them to stay in business and continue to be part of a sustainable but subsidised ‘Cymraeg speaking’ community. Such connivance is then sustained by the Welsh speaking press – such as ‘Y Cymro’ newspaper who made no reference at all to the massive protest in Cardiff. Why not? Could it be anything to do with the fact that an advert had been placed in ‘Y Cymro’ that week by the Renewables bad guys. Coincidence?


This Judas ’30 pieces of silver’ sell out by certain ‘Cymru Crachach Cymraeg’ must be challenged, and this ‘Windmilling of Wales’ exposed as Post Industrial Green Imperialism – Eco Colonialism and as much a robbery as that which has taken place over centuries and not least, in period of living memories of the British Army seizing Welsh land and vacating and destroying whole communities and, of course, the drowning of Welsh Valleys and thriving communities to take water to serve England’s Industrial needs.


The destruction of Cymric communities time and time again has been a major factor in the destruction of the Welsh language and culture and Welsh way of life and it is happening again with this windmilling of Wales – and on a much larger scale than ever seen before – and, again, its England and English capitalism that will benefit to Wales’s cost and the National Eisteddfod, the ‘supposed’ guardian of our language, culture and Welsh way of life should not be allowing itself to be bought by this ‘dirty money’ – and should be told so in very certain terms. What can be done.  I would suggest in the first instance that Anti Wind farm groups should make the effort to produce Cymraeg as well as English literature placards and banners to display during their campaigning. Not only is it correct to do so in a nation that has its own language, it will assist to do away with the argument that only ‘incomers’ are opposed to the Windmilling of Wales. I would further suggest that the ‘Pabell y Cymdeithasau’ (Societies pavilion) is booked for an hour – or longer? during Eisteddfod week so that invited Welsh speakers such as Iolo Williams, Sian Lloyd and Myfanwy Alexander will have an opportunity to address the public on the issue of the Windmilling of Wales and the National Eisteddfod’s collaboration in this with the acceptance of this ‘dirty money. 

That’s only a start!

Siân

A bilingual Report on this year's Gŵyl Coroni Owain Glyndŵr, Machynlleth can be found on our Cenedl Glyndwr blog which you should be able to access through this link: http://cenedl.blogspot.com/2011/06/gwyl-coroni-glyndwr-machynlleth-2011.html

Important Message from MAP (Montgomeryshire Against Pylons website:

Powys County Council will debate whether or not TAN8 should be revised

IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU COME TO WELSHPOOL LIVESTOCK MARKET IN TIME FOR THE 2.00 p.m. DEBATE ON WEDNESDAY 29TH JUNE

The Council is setting up a widescreen at the market so that we can see and hear the debate. We must support this extraordinary move by the council who want us to see democracy in action. If we do not turn out in great numbers then there is a very real danger that they will not vote for TAN8 to be revised. You came in the thousands and cheered Glyn Davies and followed him to Cardiff. It is equally important that you now follow this through and let Powys County Council know exactly how you feel. Email us to let us know your interest in being outside the P.C.C. meeting on June 29th
UPDATE: Cllr Graham Brown has confirmed that the Welshpool Meeting is definitely going ahead on 29th June at 2.00pm

Note from Siân: This is Glyndŵr Ancestral land that is about to be ravaged so...bring plenty of Glyndŵr flags!