Scottish Power...the megabucks stops here...well...anywhere there's a profit to be made actually!
Scottish Power are seeking permission to build a 26 turbine wind farm virtually in south eastern fringes of the Snowdonia National Park near Bala.The development on the unspoiled upland range of Mynydd Mynyllod lies amongst the dramatic Berwyn, Aran and Arenig mountain ranges.
Despite being outside the Welsh Assembly's Tan8 area for the development in North Wales which essentially is contained within the Clocaenog Forest and Denbigh Moors area. A spokesman for Scottishpower Renewables said: "The Technical Advice Note 8 states that if there is robust evidence that land outside, but close to, a SSA is suitably unconstrained.
"Mynydd Mynyllod should be suitable for a development as the existing Braich Ddu turbines are adjacent to the site."
Local conservationist Mike Skuse commented....
" As things stand, the application, when made, must be refused - because Technical Advice Note 8 quite clearly lays down that 'most areas outside Strategic Search Areas (SSAs) should remain free of large wind power schemes' - and this site is miles away from the SSA called Clocaenog Forest," he added. "So, just as I am optimistic about the shenanigans at Gorsedd Bran, which has been refused three times so far, I am confident about this latest one too - it must be refused according to the guidelines from Cardiff.
"If the application is over 50MW it would be decided by the Infrastructure Planning Commission - an organisation that the new Government has promised to abolish.
"My advice to Scottish Power Renewables is to cut their losses on this one and go somewhere else."
The latest application is just one of 26 existing applications to build wind farms in rural North Wales. Developments which will dramatically transform the Welsh uplands say conservationists who point out that the new Welsh mountain landscape will offer a vista of industrial towers highly visible from every peak in north and mid Wales.
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