Friday, October 14, 2011

New Pylons - ok but won't stop Mid-Wales uprising.

I think the new pylons design that has won the RIBA competition is an improvement. Its been designed by Bystrop, a Danish company and takes the form of a T. The T-Pylon was judged the winner against criteria which included design, functionality and technical viability. The prise is £5000.

But it will make no difference to the uprising of local opinion against the Mid Wales Connection, which plans to build a 4OOKv cable on 150' high pylons from Mid Shropshire to mid-Wales, together with a 20 acre substation and 600 more wind turbines. The scheme is an abomination, and the people of mid-Wales are determined to stop it. A UK Government would have to simply disregard an entire region for it to happen, forcing through the desecration of mid Wales against the will of the resident population.

And the BBC are at it again - just churning out National Grid propaganda, without checking the truth. The online report of T-Pylon's win includes a line about undergrounding costing 10 times as much as overhead cables. We know, because National Grid gave us the actual costings fot the Mid Wales Connection, that the figure is 3 times. But then why let the facts get in the way of a good story which backs up your already prejudiced opinion. Perhaps the only way to stop it is for the licence fee to be reduced every time a deliberate untruth is reported.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

For this weekend Glyn.... I don't care!
If (and it's a BIG if) that Wales do well on Saturday- can you, with all your Wales Office contacts- help me out with tickets for the final?

mike said...

Well said Glyn. The BBC are hard lefties who support wind turbines and have alot of their pension fund invested in wind companies. They stopped doing any investigative journalism years ago and just repeat the propaganda of things they believe in. The TV licence needs scrapping.

Bril said...

Glyn, two quick points. The 132kV lines will be just as atrocious in their own setting so should also be the target of our wrath. Also, it is questionable whether undergrounding costs any more at all in the long run as energy losses are lower and there is less maintenance over a long period. The sums have been done on this. Regards, Phil

bonetired said...

Glyn ..... I am not that impressed with the design of the pylons ... You can dress a t*rd in a tuxedo ...

Glyn Davies said...

Bonetired - did you see the pylons in the Mail on Sunday cartoon today. Brilliant. Shaped as an arm with two fingers carrying the cables.

frankie said...

In the Times last Wed there was a tiny little article about renewables obligations certificates, suggesting that these incentives are the reason why our electricity bills are so huge, because the operators of wind farms can charge 3 times the price for the power they produce.Withour these incentives (ROC) operators argue that building wind farms is simply not commercial.

It goes on to say that the government is looking to cut the ROC regime, which if this is true is good news indeed, as it would mean without ROC wind farms won't be built.

Have you any inside information on this Glyn?

Joe said...

I hate to put a damper on the debate but here's a link to National Grid's policy
http://www.nationalgrid.com/NR/rdonlyres/A7B84851-242F-496B-A5E8-697331E15504/36546/UndergroundingTheTechnicalIssues5.pdf

They give a detailed explanation of why it costs up to 12 times as much to bury the cables.
I've spoken to engineers who worked on similar projects. They say that such cables are only buried when there is absolutely no other option.