Leader calls for curbs on windfarm construction

The leader of the Welsh Assembly has called for the number of windfarms being built across Mid Wales to be restricted. First Minister Carwyn Jones made the plea.

He said large scale developments of windfarms were "unacceptable" and added his Government would not support the construction of pylons in rural areas to connect windfarms to the National Grid.

He has called for Westminster to allow the Assembly to make decisions about major energy projects affecting Wales.

The announcement has been greeted with delight by campaigners fighting proposals by National Grid to build a substation either at Abermule or Cefn Coch to link windfarms to the National Grid, which could see hundreds of pylons built in Shropshire and Mid Wales.