Tax Payers Alliance

http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/letthemeatcarbon/2011/07/government-fiddle-disastrous-energy-policy-households-fuel-poverty.html

Matthew Sinclair's new book mentioned in the above link sounds interesting:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Let-Them-Eat-Carbon-Governments/dp/184954116


Other news on this blog:

There will be more links uploaded shortly about the Welshpool Council Meeting (there have been no postings here the last few days because of IT problems)

Part 2 PVPTV News

More from Welshpool - hear Councillor R. G. Brown as he calls for a moratorium on wind farm applications, with words such as these "stop this ludicrous, inexcusable and completely out of proportion trashing of our countryside"

Pylons, Windfarms - Powys County Council Motion TAN 8.-PVPTV News Part 1

The people speak.
This is Part 1 of a news documentary that features a meeting that took place at Welshpool on the 29th June 2011 organised by Powys County Council to discuss a motion to review TAN8.

David Bellamy's Blog

David Bellamy's blog is very much worth visiting if you are an artist, and also if yuo are concerned about the wind farm threat to Mid Wales.
Here is a link to his June 30 2011 posting.

Exhibition by Jenny Keal

Lindisfarne, by Jenny Keal

Exhibition of Paintings
by Jenny Keal
from her new book
Painting with Pastels

at
Erwood Station Craft Centre and Gallery
(6 miles south of Builth Wells)
LD2 3SJ
www.erwood-station.co.uk
tel: 01982 560674
from Saturday 2nd July 2011
until 18th August 2011

Go to this page on:
David Bellamy and Jenny Keal's website
for more details.

Jenny will be available at Erwood Station's Summer of Great Events
to sign books, demonstrate pastel techniques and answer questions on Saturday 23rd July 2011 between 12 noon and 4 pm.

Some news from the North and West of Britain

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/cumbria-council-boss-wants-government-windfarm-policy-rethink-1.853135?referrerPath=news


Concerned about the number of wind farm applications? Look at this map from Aberdeenshire: http://www.cawt.co.uk/index.php?page=map

Powys council unanimously supported a motion urging the Welsh Government to request a moratorium on all wind farm applications.

Read more at this link:
http://www.warmwell.com/windfarms.html

Last weekend for Art Trek

This is a great event, and a chance to visit artists in their studios. I was one of the first artists involved in the Art Trek, and after I organised it in the second year, Stella Levy took over from then until now. Several other Art Trek artists have been supportive of our campaigns, so if you live near one of our venues (or feel like a longer trek around some more) do come along. Many of us are doing tea and cakes as well. There is no pressure to buy - this is a friendly event, with free entry, and a chance to meet and talk with artists, usually in their own studios.
The North Devon Festival were also very supportive when I did my walk round Devon's wind farm sites back in 2006 and this is the last week of the Festival as well, which lights up June in North Devon even on a cold wet month like this one has been, so do please check out their website as well.
The campaigners in the South Molton area will be celebrating - at least for the moment, since the developers may appeal - but even more support is needed in the Torridge area, where the quiet and beautiful countryside around West Putford, Meddon, and the East Youldstone, close to Morwenstow across the Cornish border, is also under threat. So if you have the chance, do visit the West Gallery, to show your support - and see the work of Art Trek artist Rob Walker as well work by some other well-known artists.

Christine Lovelock