Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor,

GREEN-WASHING falsehoods seem to be never-ending!

The latest come with the artist’s impression of the proposed Y Bryn wind farm next to Bryn village on 1,000ft-high Mynydd Margam overlooking Maesteg, Port Talbot and Pontrhydyfen in the Afan Valley.

The artist’s impression has been taken from the official Coriolis Energy (owned by the Irish Government) website for the wind farm.

As one newspaper article says, the largest wind turbines will be a phenomenal 820ft (250m) in height. Yet if readers examine that artist’s impression, they will find the machines shown are nothing of the sort.

The width of the single track road proves the wind turbines shown are no more than 300ft high. A single track road cannot possibly be wider than 8ft. Extrapolate that to the height of the wind turbine next to the track, and one finds the turbine cannot be more than 300ft… a long way short of 820ft!

For further proof, check the conifer height. The wind turbine in the foreground is about 10 times the tree height – or 300ft if the trees are 30ft tall. Again, look at the diameter of the machine pillar. It’s around 8ft. How could a puny 8ft diameter column support a gigantic 820ft spinning machine which has a blade diameter equal to the height of Blackpool Tower? Impossible engineering!

England and the Irish Republic are both taking advantage of “soft Wales”. Whilst England’s vast share of wind turbines are being dumped on Wales, Irish juggernauts hammer freely across Wales en route to England and mainland Europe after purchasing their fuel in Ireland. Ireland gets the profit; we get the road damage, the fumes and the CO2 and no recompense!

Meanwhile, Ireland also wants to put gargantuan wind turbines above Maesteg!

L J Jenkins, 

Clyn-yr-ynys,

Gwbert, 

Cardigan.

SA431PR