At the moment, it's fashionable to mention Trywerin but this Blog wishes to do so with something of a twist.
The decision by Liverpool Corporation to flood the Trywerin valley caused consternation. The resultant reservoir, officially opened 50 years ago today, became a national cause célèbre. Indeed, the Trywerin legacy ensures that in the future nothing like this could possibly ever happen again.
Or could it?
Look no further than the uncalled for and unwanted wind turbines that daily affect and alter our landscape (not to mention the overground power cables rigged to serve them). This is topographic manipulation no less than at Trywerin. To provide dubious benefits at best we see the industrialisation of our greatest national asset: our landscape. Just like the drowning of Capel Celyn.
The uplands to the south and west of Rhuthun/Ruthin have to suffer these unremitting robots, these unearthly behemoths. The Clocaenog wind farm agreed in September 2014 alone sees the provision of no fewer than 32 turbines.
You may think that there's a world of difference between a drowned valley and a wind turbine. Yet, both despoil; both are unwelcome; both are unnecessary; both express influences from outside Wales. Water makes habitation impossible. Turbine noise makes life above ground sometimes intolerable if living in the vicinity of the perpetual, recurring, persistent swish of rotating blades.
Turbines are much more invidious than that. They draw the eye, detracting from the natural beauty of our panoramas. They're about as natural as a concrete cow in Milton Keynes yet as aesthetically pleasing as Tesco Rhuthun alongside Nantclwyd y Dre and as out of place as Japanese knot weed among a bed of petunias... and equally as destructive.
Or could it?
Look no further than the uncalled for and unwanted wind turbines that daily affect and alter our landscape (not to mention the overground power cables rigged to serve them). This is topographic manipulation no less than at Trywerin. To provide dubious benefits at best we see the industrialisation of our greatest national asset: our landscape. Just like the drowning of Capel Celyn.
You may think that there's a world of difference between a drowned valley and a wind turbine. Yet, both despoil; both are unwelcome; both are unnecessary; both express influences from outside Wales. Water makes habitation impossible. Turbine noise makes life above ground sometimes intolerable if living in the vicinity of the perpetual, recurring, persistent swish of rotating blades.
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