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Developers

Background papers mainly relating to the British Wind Energy Association (BWEA), West Coast Energy, GE and Falck, and correspondence between Kaye Little and Cambrian Wind Energy Ltd and others.

European Union

Correspondence between Kaye Little and Eluned Morgan MEP, mainly relating to the alleged 'abnegation' of the goals of the EU-funded Mynydd y Ffynnon agri-environment scheme by the development of the Cefn Croes wind farm.

Forestry Commission

Papers relating to the Forestry Commission, 1998-2007, particularly relating to the use of the forest estate for purposes beyond their statutory remit. Also extracts from the Forestry Act 1967.

Forestry Commission Wales

Letters to the Forestry Commission, 2005, rough notes for the Ceredigion planning committee, and the death of Ian Forshaw, ex Foerstry Commission Wales director, Sept. 2007.

Forestry Commission Wales

Letters, mainly between Kaye Little and the Forestry Commission, and other papers relating to SSE's (later Airtricity's) proposed Nant-y-moch wind farm, and particularly the effect on the Forestry Commission's Bwlch Nant-yr-arian visitor centre. Also Nant-yr-arian leaflets, 2004-2010.

Forestry Commission Wales

Correspondence between Kaye Little and the Forestry Commission, and related papers and publications, including Forestry Commission Wales annual report and accounts 2006-07.

Foresty Commission

Mainly relating to forestry policy, including the 'Review of woodland expansion in Wales', 2004, and Kaye Little's report to CCAG on the Forestry Commission's 'Woodlands for Wales' conference at Llandrindod, 12 Jan. 2006.

Formal consultation responses

CCAG responses and related papers, including re. National Assembly for Wales 'Climate Change Wales : learning to live differently', 2001; DEFRA energy policy consultation paper, 2002; House of Lords Science & Technology Committee hearings on the practicalities of renewable power, 2003; DTI renewable energy policy consultation paper, 2003; draft Planning Policy Statement 22 (PPS22) on renewable energy, 2003-2004; Scout Moor Windpower Station Inquiry, 2004; and Carmarthenshire County Council discussion paper on windfarm development in the Brechfa Forest area, 2006. Also a partially annotated copy of UK renewable energy strategy consultation document, 2008.

Formal consultation responses

Including embargoed advance copies of the House of Commons Welsh Affairs Committee 'Energy in Wales', Third Report of Session 2005-06, vols 1-2, and the Hose of Commons Environmental Audit Committee Sixth Report of Session 2005-06, 'Keeping the lights on: nuclear, renewables and climate change', vol. 1.

Green groups

Green group responses, including Friends of the Earth and the Sustainable Development Consortium, 2001-2009. Also copies of Marcus Rand, 'Developing wind energy for the UK' (FoE, 1990), a speech by Niel Kinnock against the Mynydd Maen windfarm, 1994, the Darmstadt manifesto on the exploitation of wind energy in Germany, 1998, and notes on the Cefn Croes windfarm debate, Merched y Wawr building, Aberystwyth, 26 Oct. 2000.

Hawkins & co., solicitors

Letters, mainly between Hawkins & co. (Hawkins Hatton LLP from March 2006), CCAG's solicitors, and the National Assembly and the Forestry Commission, relating to the Forestry Acts, TAN 8, Camddwr (also called Tywi Forest), deviations from planning consents at Cefn Croes, and the legal challenge against the National Assembly of Wales and the Forestry Commission.

Horses

Letters from riding stables, the British Horse Society, and the Dyfnant & Vyrnwy Horse Riders' & Carriage Drivers' Association, relating to the siting of wind turbines at Carno, Cefn Croes and elsewhere within 200 meters of bridleways, including noting that the Highways Act 1850 banned windmills being built closer than 200 yards from a turnpike road.

House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution

Copies of the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution volumes 'Devolution: inter-institutional relations in the United Kingdon, evidence, complete to 10 July 2002', and '2nd report'. Elizabeth Morley's evidence to the committee relating to Cefn Croes is on pp. 427-9, and p. 16, item 31 of the report.

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