CEIRIOG
VALLEY ACTION GROUP
Residents of the Ceiriog Valley united against proposals to blight one of
North Wales’ most beautiful rural landscapes with industrial wind turbines
Full information about the
CVAG campaign
can be found on the Group’s
website:
www.cvag.campaign.btinternet.co.uk
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Release
date: Monday August 12th 2002
Shadow
Secretary engages Ceiriog
Valley
wind turbines controversy
THE BOILING controversy over whether the tourism-orientated Ceiriog Valley should be blighted by giant wind turbines takes a new turn this morning, with a fact-finding visit to the Valley by Nigel Evans MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales.
The Conservative MP and spokesman for Welsh Affairs comes to the Valley at a time when the issue of countryside desecration by a seemingly endless stream of turbine development proposals, is at last being debated at national level.
Spurred by leading articles in the Daily Telegraph and The Times, politicians of all parties are now questioning whether the ‘turbinisation’ of large tracts of countryside, including beauty spots like the Ceiriog Valley, is a misplaced policy which creates more environmental problems than it solves.
Nigel Evans will be at the Golden Pheasant Hotel, Llwynmawr at 11.30 this morning, with an entourage of national press, local Conservative MPs, AMs and councillors, and will meet with representatives of the Ceiriog Valley Action Group, as well as members of the local Conservative Association who are fiercely opposed to the indiscriminate siting of turbines in the Ceiriog Valley.
You are cordially invited to send a photographer or representative to the Golden Pheasant Hotel at 11.30 this morning.
For further information, please contact local Conservative Association representative Greta Roberts on 01691- 718790, or Ceiriog Valley Action Group Press Officer David Wilcock on 01691-718351.