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Surely it is chickens coming home to roost with the recent flooding in South Wales and elsewhere.

Nearly 2 million trees have been felled in Wales to accommodate wind farms - not to overlook the CO2-producing tons of concrete used in constructing generator bases and the infrastructure to connect to the Grid.

Huge areas of peat and gorse land have disappeared – land which would normally soak up rainfall, thus minimising run-off and the threat of flooding.

National Resources Wales state the number of trees that have been felled for onshore wind farm development in Wales totals 1,938,400. Thus apart from the now greater risk to future flooding we will also have, under windless conditions, the lack of electricity generation coupled with the loss of millions of environmentally enhancing trees.

Maybe the perceptive and worldly wise Welsh Government have plans to plant a few million extremely fast growing (that are new to science and nature) trees to compensate for such a shameful loss – or perhaps members of the Senedd are actually planning to escape the repercussions of deforestation in Wales and live on Mars?

Dave Haskell Brithdir Cardigan

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