RE- think at the Senedd

Press release

RE-think puts its case to leading Welsh decision makers

Date: 16th October 2024                                                         Embargo: None

RE-think enjoyed a memorable visit to the Senedd yesterday (Tues 15th October 2024.) We were taking part in “Y Farchnad” a Marketplace event for community groups and charities to meet Members of the Senedd in an informal setting.

The event was well attended, allowing RE-think to explain to Senedd Members across the parties its position on industrial-scale wind farm developments being planned for Mid Wales.

RE-think is calling for urgent reconsideration of how Wales works to achieve its climate change goals.  It warns that the UK and Welsh Government energy policies, which rely heavily on building industrial-scale weather-dependent wind and solar developments, are unsustainable.    

Each of the 11 groups and charities attending had been sponsored by an MS, in RE-think’s case the Member for Brecon and Radnorshire, James Evans.    

Jenny Chryss, RE-think’s Campaign Lead said: “We are very grateful to James for this opportunity to speak directly to some of Wales’s most influential politicians.  It could not have come at a better time, with decisions imminent on future energy provision across the country.

“Expert opinion that we have received is that the intentions of both the UK and Welsh Government to build more and more massive wind and solar farms will mean a less stable grid and increasing electricity prices.  Yes, we need to continue moving away from fossil fuels, but we must think more carefully about how we go about it.  Swamping rural communities with massive wind turbines which can only work to about a quarter of their capacity and operate only in certain weather conditions is simply not the right way forward.”

James Evans MS, who attended the event, said afterwards: “I was proud to sponsor Re-Think: Don’t Break the Heart of Wales in the Senedd, bringing the voices of all those who are, or going to be, affected by large scale green energy infrastructure projects directly to Senedd Members in Cardiff. 

“I will do all I can to protect rural communities from being exploited by big corporations who want to industrialise our amazing countryside!”

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For more information, please email Jenny Chryss at jenny.chryss@gmail.com