Cardigan – Jac o' the North

Future Generations Deserve Better Than Net Zero

Jac — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 08:00:41 +0000

There’s a gathering of envirogrifters on February 4 at the Pierhead Building in Corruption Bay. Here’s an invitation from Daniel Lock of Nature Service Wales, a newish outfit and local branch of the scarcely older Food, Farming & Countryside Commission (FFCC). Reminding us that ‘environmentalism’ sees new groups spring up almost every day, proliferating like …

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Friends old & new: Gavin ‘Wynnborn’ Woodhouse; James ‘Fforest’ Lynch; Shane Baker, ‘the bargain basement Baldrick of Nebo’ and Jonathan Duggan

Jac — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 09:00:17 +0000

It’s always nice to meet up with old friends, and here are updates on three characters I’ve written about before, though I suppose it’s stretching it a bit to call them friends. And it also gives me the opportunity to introduce a couple of new faces. This trip down Memory Lane will take us from …

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Round-up: Rhigos, Aberystwyth, Cardigan, Pontypridd

Jac — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 08:50:30 +0000

CHINA TO RHIGOS Not so long ago I wrote about the Pen y Cymoedd wind farm project, and developer Vattenfall’s use of bribery to win over or silence the local populace. (Click here and scroll down to the section Vattenfall of Money.) Well now I know the route by which the turbines for Pen y …

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The Colonisation of Wales: Help Needed

Jac — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 20:33:53 +0000

After interruptions and various distractions I’m finally pressing on with my Magnum Opus ‘The Colonisation of Wales’. One distraction has been the disturbing news received from a number of quarters about the Llandysul, Drefach and Dre-Fach Felindre area of Dyffryn Teifi. It seems that this area, straddling the boundary between Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion, is a …

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