I want to congratulate you on all of the brilliant work you have been doing to highlight the utter crassness of the Welsh Government's zealous drive to make Wales a 'renewable energy superpower'.
Your clear, accurate and logical approach to delivering factual information, coupled with wonderful imagery, leaves no doubt as to what future generations are set to lose if the WG continue to get their way.
The WG, - and I include both Labour and Plaid under the umbrella term of 'Welsh Government' - , have been developing their renewables policies over many years and have shrouded them in a massive web of contradictory and, arguably, duplicitous verbal diarrhoea in order to make it appear that they are 'caring' about what happens to the environment, whilst at the same time, they have been methodically working towards opening up the whole of Wales to large renewables industry businesses, who are intent on doing nothing more than making money out of stripping the land of precious, irreplaceable, non-renewable natural resources.
The WG have at no time given any proper consideration for, or placed any recognisable value on what those natural resources might actually be and have consistently ignored the voices of concerned locals, wildlife organisations and even scientific facts, choosing, instead, to dance to the tune piped out by their cohort of renewables 'stakeholders' and 'partners'.
As a result, they have become totally dismissive, even rudely derogatory, of those who dare to be in opposition and, to add insult to injury, they have gone about it all in a way that is entirely undemocratic.
Gerald Durrell, talking about conservation in the early 1960s, said 'By and large, people are apathetic because they do not realise what is going on, but the most dangerous part of the problem is political apathy, because it is not only at top level that you can get things done. Most politicians would not risk their careers for the sake of conservation, because firstly they do not think it is important, and secondly, they treat conservationists with the disregard they would display towards an elderly spinster's ravings over her pet peke. But, unlike us, animals have no control over their future. They cannot ask for home rule, they cannot worry their MPs with their grievances, they cannot even get their unions to agree to strike for better conditions. Their future and their very existence depends on us'.
Gerald also said, when protesting about proposals to drill for oil on the Great Barrier Reef some decades ago, that 'The average Australian........appears to be badly served by his politicians, who display an astonishing ignorance on any subject that is not immediately connected with sheep, opals, minerals or anything else that can make them a quick buck......The problem the conservationist has is a difficult one; it is how to educate the politicians, for by and large, they are like retarded children'.
Thank you Maggie. The policies supposed to protect rural Wales, its communities, economy, and its environment do not appear to apply to the parallel universe in which we find ourselves living.
“When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten and the last stream poisoned, they will realise that we cannot eat money.”
Well done Annie!
I want to congratulate you on all of the brilliant work you have been doing to highlight the utter crassness of the Welsh Government's zealous drive to make Wales a 'renewable energy superpower'.
Your clear, accurate and logical approach to delivering factual information, coupled with wonderful imagery, leaves no doubt as to what future generations are set to lose if the WG continue to get their way.
The WG, - and I include both Labour and Plaid under the umbrella term of 'Welsh Government' - , have been developing their renewables policies over many years and have shrouded them in a massive web of contradictory and, arguably, duplicitous verbal diarrhoea in order to make it appear that they are 'caring' about what happens to the environment, whilst at the same time, they have been methodically working towards opening up the whole of Wales to large renewables industry businesses, who are intent on doing nothing more than making money out of stripping the land of precious, irreplaceable, non-renewable natural resources.
The WG have at no time given any proper consideration for, or placed any recognisable value on what those natural resources might actually be and have consistently ignored the voices of concerned locals, wildlife organisations and even scientific facts, choosing, instead, to dance to the tune piped out by their cohort of renewables 'stakeholders' and 'partners'.
As a result, they have become totally dismissive, even rudely derogatory, of those who dare to be in opposition and, to add insult to injury, they have gone about it all in a way that is entirely undemocratic.
Gerald Durrell, talking about conservation in the early 1960s, said 'By and large, people are apathetic because they do not realise what is going on, but the most dangerous part of the problem is political apathy, because it is not only at top level that you can get things done. Most politicians would not risk their careers for the sake of conservation, because firstly they do not think it is important, and secondly, they treat conservationists with the disregard they would display towards an elderly spinster's ravings over her pet peke. But, unlike us, animals have no control over their future. They cannot ask for home rule, they cannot worry their MPs with their grievances, they cannot even get their unions to agree to strike for better conditions. Their future and their very existence depends on us'.
Gerald also said, when protesting about proposals to drill for oil on the Great Barrier Reef some decades ago, that 'The average Australian........appears to be badly served by his politicians, who display an astonishing ignorance on any subject that is not immediately connected with sheep, opals, minerals or anything else that can make them a quick buck......The problem the conservationist has is a difficult one; it is how to educate the politicians, for by and large, they are like retarded children'.
Sadly, it appears that nothing has changed.
It is still, 'Business as usual'.
Thank you Maggie. The policies supposed to protect rural Wales, its communities, economy, and its environment do not appear to apply to the parallel universe in which we find ourselves living.
“When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten and the last stream poisoned, they will realise that we cannot eat money.”