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A Public Inquiry will be held by the National Assembly’s Planning Inspectorate into a planning application for a series of wind turbines near Hirwaun The application, submitted by Pennant Walters Ltd. is for the erection of nine wind turbines, an anemometer and associated infrastructure and buildings on land south of the A465 in Hirwaun at Hirwaun [...]...

The Planning Application to build one of Wales’ largest Wind Farms in Cynon Valley was rejected by Rhondda Cynon Taf Council in April 2008. The developer, Pennant Walters, are appealing against the decision via the Welsh Assembly. The Welsh Assembly are considering the Appeal… If you wish your views to be heard please write in triplicate to: The Planning Inspectorate, REF A/07/2058755 Crown Building, Cathays Park, CARDIFF CF10 3NQ BEFORE 1st MAY......

There is only one week left to Have your Say on the Windfarm Plans for Hirwaun … The Application to build giant Wind Turbines across the Cynon Valley was rejected by Rhondda Cynon Taf Council in April 2008. The Developer appealed against that decision and this Appeal is being heard via the Welsh Assembly’s Planning [...]...

Plaid Cymru national Assembly candidate for the Rhondda, Jill Evans, is calling for a moratorium on Labour’s “windfarms-first” policy, following the threat of a massive wind-farm near Hirwaun. Speaking at a press conference held at Mynydd y Rhigos - the highest point in Glamorgan – Plaid Cymru Vice President Jill Evans MEP said: “Plaid Cymru firmly believes that urgent and effective action is needed to tackle climate change. But the top priority must be given to energy conservation and efficiency. Then, renewable energy must come from several sources – hydro, solar, bio-mass and wind. Labour’s policy, with its 80% reliance on on-shore wind-farms, is wrong. The result – 150 wind turbines in north Glamorgan by 2010 – is unacceptable. “We’re calling for a planning...

The Ramblers’ Association have confirmed that there will be more Walks Against Windfarms organised in the South Wales Valleys, including Rhondda Cynon Taff. There is likely to be protest walk in Neath on March 3rd, a protest walk near Rhigos, and others. Details to be confirmed....

The Walk Against the Wind Farm was the front page story in Aberdare’s local newspaper last week. Several hundred people met at Dare Valley Country Park for a ‘ramble in the rain’. They braved the wettest and windiest weekends of the New Year for their walk. The message was a clear “NO” to the Welsh Assembly Government plans to see wind turbines erected in their community. There is a very edgy Head Saleswoman for Cynon Valley’s first Wind Farm. That saleswoman is the local Labour Assembly Member Christine Chapman. In an unusually verbose letter printed in the Cynon Valley Leader, January 4 2007, the Labour AM attempts to belittle those who oppose the wind farm : “some people’s views are strong and emotive” and “I am very...

A Walk Against the Wind Farm is to be held at Dare Valley Country Park on January 13th 2007. Starts 10am from the Dare Valley Country Park Visitor Centre. The walk aims to raise awareness about the proposed wind farm to be sited near Cwmdare and running north to Hirwaun. Those who take part in the walk will be able to see first-hand where some of the 400ft wind-turbines might be located and discuss their effects on the local environment. David James, Chairman of Cynon Valley Ramblers has organised the event. He advises sturdy boots and estimates that the walk should last around two and a half hours. Hopefully the weather dries out for the day. Everyone welcome. Just turn up on the day to join in the walk. For further information call David James on 01685 874600 ecology, environment,...

A Walk Against the Wind Farm is to be held at Dare Valley Country Park on January 13th 2007. Starts 10am from the Dare Valley Country Park Visitor Centre. The walk aims to raise awareness about the proposed wind farm to be sited near Cwmdare and running north to Hirwaun. Those who take part in the walk will be able to see first-hand where some of the 400ft wind-turbines might be located and discuss their effects on the local environment. David James, Chairman of Cynon Valley Ramblers has organised the event. He advises sturdy boots and estimates that the walk should last around two and a half hours. Hopefully the weather dries out for the day. Everyone welcome. Just turn up on the day to join in the walk. For further information call David James on 01685 874600 dare valley country...

Work continues this week around the clock tower at the site of the old Aberdare Boys’ School. According to Colin Rees, the clock tower dates back to 1901, it was built five years after the school was built. The efforts to preserve parts of the school site by former pupils was laudable, but it seemed almost inevitable that they would fail as it would be going against the grain of how things work. Nothing is sacred or too special in a capitalist society. Marx puts it eloquently in Communist Manifesto thus : Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social relations, everlasting uncertainty and agitation, distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier times. All fixed, fast-frozen relationships, with their train of venerable ideas and opinions are...