Jan 07 2009
World Second Largest Wind Farm Goes Ahead
Environmental groups including the WWF and Friends of the Earth now support the second largest wind farm in the world off the North Wales coast in Great Britain.
The 750 MW renewable energy project which will have the capacity to produce green electricity for thousands of homes over Wales will consist of a mega 250 wind turbine farm about 10 miles north of the coastal resort of Llandudno.
And it is this potential visual impact that has motivated another environmental group called “Save our Scenery” to demand a judicial review in an attempt to overturn the approval given by the UK Government Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
Friends of the Earth Cymru says that the Gwynt Y Mor project should go ahead because it would meet 10 per cent of Wales’s electricity consumption and save around 2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide every year.
SEA, a pro-wind campaign group in North Wales said the UK was way behind other countries in developing green energy wind farms.
Because the application for this wind farm is for combined output of 750 MW, the responsibility rests with the UK government at Westminster. The Welsh Assembly in Cardiff only controls energy installations with capacity of 50MW or less.
