Letter of the week
Green planning
HY is it that, in the current age, attaching the word ‘green’ to anything makes it right? Here in beautiful unspoilt mid Wales, a scheme involving the erection of dozens of 220m-tall (720ft) wind turbines and the associated 65km (40 miles) of 27m (88ft) pylons is considered to be fine, as the company proposing it has added ‘green’ to its name. Forget the designated areas of SSSI on the Radnor Forest that would be lost, forget the additional wind farms that will be built along the pylon route right down to South Wales. Don’t worry, it’s green! When the obvious answer is for the turbines to be offshore or for tidal-power schemes, no,
