Anti-pylon crowds will march on Welsh Assembly
Friday 13th May 2011, 11:29AM BST.
Hundreds of campaigners fighting multi-million pound plans which may see hundreds of pylons and a substation built in Mid Wales will march on the Welsh Assembly on May 24.
The date was revealed today by Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies, who is urging as many people as possible to head to Cardiff.
Hundreds are likely to make the trip to the Welsh capital to ensure politicians behind the proposal are aware of the strength of feeling against the plans.
Mr Davies said: “We must ensure that, in years to come, they cannot disclaim responsibility for the environmental vandalism and shocking waste of public money for which they will have been responsible.
“We do not want the people responsible for the decision saying ‘we didn’t understand that it was going to cause that much damage’.
“It is important that they know now exactly what they are going to do. In decades to come they will be remembered in the way those responsible for drowning the Tryweryn valley in the last century are remembered in Wales today.
“We must ensure their names will be remembered on the roll call of those responsible for splitting the Welsh nation asunder.”
The proposals submitted by Scottish Power and National Grid include a 20-acre substation and could see more than 100 miles of power cables and pylons put up to carry electricity generated by up to 800 wind turbines to the National Grid.
The Conservation of Upland Powys (CUP) group has uploaded a video to You Tube showing the countryside they say will be destroyed by the pylons.
And residents are being told to return consultation forms over the plans as a “matter of urgency”.
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