Madam,

This letter is particularly directed at our Welsh Assembly Members Elin Jones, Rebecca Evans, Simon Thomas, Joyce Watson and William Powell; MP Mark Williams, and Ceredigion county councillor John Lumley.

It was a very sad day when the appeal was upheld to build a 77-metre wind turbine near Henfynyw in Ceredigion. Due process was followed and what happened was, unhappily, within current law and statute as it stands.

This project will seriously impact the lives of local residents, and at least two of our older neighbours will have their twilight years absolutely destroyed by the construction at the end of their garden. This cannot be fair!

A beautiful valley in Ceredigion will be forever blighted, local tourism will be impacted, and tens of thousands will be wiped off property values in the area.

And for what?

Whatever your position on global warming and climate change, it has to be accepted that any opportunity to deploy renewable energy makes perfect sense, and should be applied wherever appropriate, but surely only where the impact on people’s lives is minimised.

The building of this huge monstrosity, in a populated rural area, is a complete travesty.

It will exist, not for any high-minded ecological principle, but purely as a money-generating enterprise for those involved in delivery.

Wales has huge areas where it might make sense to install windfarms. Action should be taken now to control the deployment in areas where lives can be ruined.

At what point will our political masters realise that the green ‘fig-leaf’ they have permitted does little to save the planet, but much to destroy the quality of life of those who live with these monsters.

What is being done now to protect the people of Wales from this plight, and what plans do our masters have to curtail this madness, and ensure that our needs come before the naked greed of the world of high finance?

It was a very sad day, but we allowed it to happen.

Shame on all of us.

Yours etc

R W Turner

Felinfach.