Letter

“Commodity curse” is a newish phrase in global economics. Mineral riches are seen as not a good thing, but leading to exploitation of the mass of the populations in poorer foreign countries by their local autocrats and foreign despots operating in predatory alliances, with commodity price booms/busts reinforcing debt as a controlling device.

Could this phrase apply to the foreign takeover of our own UK entire UK ENERGY POLICY via German and Scandinavian and Dutch and Irish cornering our Wind Turbine UK subsidised industry and Chinese Asian and Spanish SOLAR PANEL businesses of which neither are effective 24 hrs / 365 days a year? Who is building our new Nuclear Power Stations? Not us.

We (our two Governments – Westminster and Cardiff Bay) are handing out Planning Approvals on a plate and putting hidden charges (Renewable Levies) on all our energy bills to keep paying subsidies for this foreign invasion to keep going on, as it has since its birth in our recent lifetime, as profitable large projects for overseas businesses, especially all over Wales.

Wales is on the front line of “commodity curse” – with our open windy hill tops, generally parts of large estate owned land, and a Welsh population poorer than England. It is a global parallel of  “commodity curse”.