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200 Hundred Trees Illegally Felled for Solar Farm

JumpinJack said:
Well, there will be something done, but there is no replacement for an ancient tree.

Trees perform a valuable service to the earth, emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to combat the very damage that solar farms are intended to combat. Ironic. Not to mention respect for ancient trees and the sheer beauty of them, plus the critters that live in and on them.

Horrible.
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Wood is made by the tree absorbing carbon dioxide from the air..
 
Somerville said:
If the photographer is standing alongside the road and shooting toward the fields, why would a road be visible? That excuse is truly stretching for anything as an excuse to deny reality.
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And if unicorns were real we could all have one.
 
X Factor said:
My inner grammar Nazi just has to point out that 200 hundred is redundant.
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Is it? Whew!! I was about to freak out that someone chopped down 20 000 trees in Wales... Because, like, they don't have 20 000 trees in Wales.
 
Jack Hays said:
You can't make this up. "Someone" illegally felled 200 trees in Wales, apparently to make way for a solar farm. A solar farm? In Wales? Really?




Environmentalism in action

Posted on 03 Mar 17 by IAN WOOLLEY • 6 Comments
In Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy an insane bunch of people starting out on a new planet try to get a money system going and decide that leaves will do as banknotes. Unfortunately, because there are so many leaves on the new planet, they decide to instigate a massive programme of deflation and burn all the forests down. This is a bit like environmentalists chopping trees down to build a solar plant because climate change is damaging the environment. But who’s ever heard of that happening?

Well, Natural Resources Wales have. In January, far out in the unfashionable end of a small unregarded town in South Wales, near an insignificant region called Croespenmaen, 200 ancient beech trees were felled to make way for exactly that: a new solar farm. Illegally. However, while Natural Resources Wales knew what was going on, the rest of us were kept in the dark. Consider this ITV News report from January. There is no mention of who might be behind the destruction:… Continued
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As an american I accept leaving Wales to the Welsh.
 
Tree genocide in Wales? That's what you got?

Seriously Jack... SERIOUSLY???

Lets talk baseball.
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
Tree genocide in Wales? That's what you got?

Seriously Jack... SERIOUSLY???

Lets talk baseball.
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Grand terrorist conspiracy, actually. Cutting down trees is terrorism. Jack says so.
 
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Jack Hays said:
The claim was perhaps the trees were to screen the solar array from a road. There was no road visible near the trees.
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The guy writing the article you posted literally identified the road he saw this area from. I mean. Jesus.
 
Unless new evidence appears to back up Keith Smith's claim, I'll have to concede I had this one wrong.
 
Deuce said:
The guy writing the article you posted literally identified the road he saw this area from. I mean. Jesus.
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There's no doubt a road. But for the screening claim to make sense it would need to run alongside the trees, and that does not show. Regardless, I've already posted I concede the point unless new evidence turns up in Smith's favor.
 
Jack Hays said:
There's no doubt a road. But for the screening claim to make sense it would need to run alongside the trees, and that does not show. Regardless, I've already posted I concede the point unless new evidence turns up in Smith's favor.
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I guess you'll....call it a draw?
 
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