'People living downstream on the Severn should really be on the alert'
The fine city of Worcester on the River Severn was mentioned.
Both the Severn and Wye rise in the mountainous area around Pumlumon in Mid Wales.
Do your thousands of readers realise there are proposals for up to 1,000 gigantic wind turbines across Wales, averaging a gargantuan 750 feet in height?
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They will be the biggest on land in the world — some will be 820 feet — and have massive concrete bases.
They'll be surrounded by miles and miles of gravel tracks and concrete and tarmac roads.
Therefore, the huge catchment areas of the Severn and Wye and their large tributaries, such as the Teme, Avon and Vyrnwy, will see non-absorbent concrete and tarmac replacing highly-absorbent peat, forestry, moorland and grassland.
If that is not a recipe for dangerous, rapid flash-flooding on a huge scale, I don't know what is.
People living downstream on the Severn in places such as Welshpool, Shrewsbury, Ironbridge, Bridgnorth, Stourport, Tewkesbury, Worcester and Gloucester should really be on the alert.
So should people on the Wye in places like Ross and Hereford.
May I suggest that they all write to their newspapers, councillors and MPs plus the Welsh government to protest vehemently against this likely dangerous flash-flooding?
These horrendous wind farms need to be stopped altogether.
The yo-yo UK wind energy graph for 2024 on gridwatch.co.uk proves beyond doubt that intermittent wind energy has no hope at all of powering the UK.
So why install these extremely ugly, potentially dangerous giant wind farms?
Protest letters galore from England to leading Welsh newspapers, like the Western Mail and South Wales Echo, would also help.
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