Wind farm rejected again

Campaigners of renewable energy have been left with disappointment once again after a wind energy project proposal was rejected yet another time. In 2007 Awel Aman Tawe was unable to get approval for a proposal to develop a wind farm close to Pontardawe at a place called Mynydd y Gwrhyd.
This time around the planners at the Neath Port Talbot Council planners have turned down an application for a wind farm comprising of two wind energy turbines.

Dan McCallum the project manager expressed disappointment saying that the community situated around the proposed location of the wind energy scheme had agreed to the project. The project manager added that addition of renewable energy generation capacity was necessary to reduce the carbon emissions that are causing climate change.

Awel Aman Tawe had initially made an application for consent to set up a wind farm comprising of four wind energy turbines in 2004. The local authority of Neath Port declined to give consent in 2005 and the renewable energy firm immediately appealed. But a year later the appeal was turned down by the planning inspector which then necessitated a judicial review. The following year the appeal was thrown out of court.

The project manager could not however say whether they would appeal against the latest decision. He however disclosed that they would meet with the trustees first and give it a thought.
The councillors who rejected the wind farm plan did so on the advice of Geoff White who heads the planning department at the local authority.

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