Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor,

With regard to the proposal for 26 monstrous wind turbines, 825 feet high, near Bryn village, between Port Talbot and Maesteg, I would like to suggest that local people produce pamphlets with all the details, to be distributed to residents of the whole area. A small group of us have decided to do this, but of course, it needs far more to participate and help out. We feel that these wind turbines are absolutely gigantic and will be really harmful to the whole region, for miles around. Wildlife will be decimated, new roads will cause problems for the deer who run through the forest, traffic will be held up on the M4 causing more pollution, the list goes on.

We also need local people to protest, loud and clear, to their politicians, please.

This horrendous wind farm at Bryn must be stopped!

The Welsh Government has recently published maps purporting to show areas of Wales at danger from sea level rises and heavy rainfall, all due to global warming.

I believe Natural Resources Wales [NRW] contributed to the maps.

If NRW and the Welsh Government also believe that heavy rain is going to cause flash-flooding to that extent, how on Earth can they then allow large windfarms on our hills, when they entail clearing absorbent moorland and forestry to create vast areas of hard-standings for roads and concrete turbine bases etc, causing rapid run-off of rainwater?

In fact, if they believe their own maps, how can they now support the Bryn wind-farm, which will clearly cause severe flash-floods in both the Afan and Llynfi valleys? The worst flooding will occur around the little river called Ffrwd Wyllt. Its name means “Wild Brook” in English, proving it is prone to flash-flooding. It flows down from Mynydd Margam through Goytre and Penycae into the middle of Port Talbot. Bryn wind farm will encompass its whole catchment area. Does the right hand know what the left hand is doing in Welsh Government?

Yours faithfully,

Hannah Webb.