Campaigners who want a temporary halt on the granting of permission for onshore wind farms in Wales say they are furious after Senedd Members decided not to discuss their petition because Climate Change Minister Julie James had written a letter saying she didn’t agree with it.
The petition said that to “prevent wide scale and needless damage to the Welsh countryside”, there should be a moratorium on all onshore wind and ground-based solar developments above 10MW until the potential for offshore renewable energy projects had been fully assessed.
Petitions are considered by the Senedd’s Petitions Committee if they get more than 250 signatures and for a full plenary debate if more than 10,000 people sign them. This petition gained 8,315 signatures, more than half of which from people living in Wales https://nation.cymru/news/campaigners-angry-after-wind-farm-moratorium-rejected-without-discussion/?fbclid=IwAR0EZGCvktT-D3Ikbn0WLaANlphhW6_Kg6oD9b6ZkXXXyO7KjOIfLg_KrzA
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