Press releases 2003

Coety Windfarm, Greens Call for Fair and Informed Debate

Green campaigners have called for a fair and informed debate over proposals to site a windfarm on the hilltops of Coety Mountain in Blaenau Gwent. No firm proposals have yet been made so myths can quickly fill the information vacuum warn the campaigners. In particular, it is difficult to assess the visual impact of the scheme.

Neil Crumpton, energy spokesperson for Friends of the Earth Cymru said:

"We ask for a fair and informed debate so we advise the public to be careful of the often inaccurate comments printed in the letters section of newspapers. A large windfarm, possibly 30 megawatt, on this particular site on hills not far from two highly populated valleys may be relatively more visible than other schemes. Yet, the visual appearance needs to be balanced with the provision of locally generated, carbon-free electricity for somewhere between ten and twenty thousand people. Reducing carbon emissions is vital to minimise the increasing human cost of global warming, be it due to forest fires, floods or droughts which will get progressively much worse in the coming decades."

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