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Green energy plan 'won't benefit' Welsh valley residents 2 hours ago By Colletta Smith , Cost of Living correspondent Share BBC Dina Smith is worried about what future generations will say about pylons in Wales' green valleys From the end of Dina Smith's driveway, there is green as far as the eye can see. Sunlight touches the rolling hills and moorland peaks. "Just look at it," she says as we take it all in.

"This is beautiful, untouched Mid Wales." But this could all change if plans for a huge wind turbine project get the go-ahead. For Dina, the valley is a "really special place", where her, her daughters and their families live and where her grandfather grew up.



Towy Valley's view will drastically change as new energy policies take shape In the run-up to the general election, she contacted the BBC through the Your Voice Your Vote portal with her concerns: "I just don't want my grandchildren looking around this valley with industrial views of turbines and pylons and roads, and ask: 'What did you do about it nanna?'". The Towy Usk project is being proposed by the renewable energy firm Green GEN Cymru and would take power from 31 giant turbines on a 60-mile pylon "pathway" spanning almost the width of Wales, in order to connect to the national grid. Although it is the local council and Welsh government who grant planning.

.. Colletta Smith.

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