YOU DO NOT NEED THE WEATHERMAN TO TELL YOU WHICH WAY THE WIND IS GOING TO BLOW!

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OUR SACRED HILLS.
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letter sent to western mail by Terry Breverton.

One man more than any other, Owain Glyndwr, has given us the sense of Wales as a nation, and made us what we are today. The defining moment in his 15-year-war for independence was the Battle of Hyddgen, in the foothills of Pumlumon in the wonderful Cambrian Mountains. Without that success at Hyddgen in 1401, the war would have ended in its first year. It is a place that defines Wales as a nation - a land of bogs and buzzards, rocks and streams, untouched for centuries. This is one of the very, very few unspoilt areas left in Wales, almost a sacred landscape. From Pumlumon, one can see 250 wind turbines and hundreds more are planned. Almost half of Britain's wind turbines have already been thrown across Wales by foreign corporations. Much of our land is already covered by the scars of urbanisation, and politicians seem bent on killing our only remaining industry, tourism. I have driven around the Cotswolds and the Lake District recently - where are their windfarms? I drive all over our tiny country researching for writing, and the great, noisy, ugly things are everywhere. Cambria Magazine stopped printing letters on windfarms as its editor said that around 99% of Welsh people did not want them. However, it seems that 99% of our elected politicians do. My taxes are used to subsidise these monsters, built overseas and usually run by foreign corporations. There is no cost-effective case for them whatsoever (speaking as an economist) and they are despoiling our remaining landscapes (speaking as a Welshman). For Heaven's sake call a halt to this 'progress' immediately.

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Terry Breverton.

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Glyndwr Publishing (Wales Books)

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Further to above I inform you of a post in Owain Glyndwr Communicates blog of Embassy Glyndwr, this post is also titled 'Our Sacred Hills' - Heritage in the Landscape and also deals with subject of the Pumlumon Mountains and site of the Battle of Mynydd Hyddgen (see my blog: I'r Gad Welsh Battlefield Campaign) and the matter of Windmills. This post is dated 11 - 04 - 2007. Thus I, of course support fully what Terry Breverton says on this subject regards the 'Windmilling of Wales', and further bring to your attention my suggestion that those who oppose the 'Windmilling of Wales' take inspiration from what Terry reminds us of regards Owain Glyndwr and the Battle of Mynydd Hyddgen. Would not the site of this most significant of Battles in our history be more than appropriate location to lunch a truly major mobilisation of Anti - Windmill Activists, Supporters and Sympathisers in a National Campaign to raise the profile of this issue to a major level of Welsh Public Attention and begin a struggle that will lead to final victory, and not just keep this issue hitting a dead end of despair. The Battle of Hyddgen was fought some time in early to middle May, maybe the be the first of May 'Beltain' would be as good a time as any to hold such a national event, so Anti - Windmill Activists think on it and make my suggestion a priority proposal for your discussion. Then if accepted, I suggest that a National Campaign Coordinating body is set up, and one and all get on with organising that MASS MOBALISATION on Plumlumon!

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I further suggest you look up 'SACRED HILLS' on the web with a Google search, some interesting stuff comes up worth a read, as will the poem below:
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