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Caveat Emptor!

Jac — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:00:06 +0000

Over the past year I’ve written a few times about companies in Wales profiting from the UK government’s ECO4 scheme, through cavity wall insulation, solar panels, heat pumps, etc. Most recently, I’ve had to write about one of these companies going belly-up leaving dissatisfied customers; either suffering from poor workmanship that needed remedial work, or …

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The Windward-Bute Empire, Fresh Insights

Jac — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:00:47 +0000

I had something else planned to go out on Monday, but I’ve held it back in light of fresh information I’ve received about the activities of Bute Energy. Information that raises wider considerations. ◊ INTRODUCTION Let me start with an apology. I’ve been writing about Bute’s activities in Wales for seven or eight years. This …

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Follow The Money, To The Bank, And Beyond?

Jac — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 09:00:11 +0000

While I wait for more information promised on the Siddiqi gang, eHarley Street, and a raft of other companies, here’s a quickie I kind of stumbled upon after following the money trail when someone pointed me towards a piece in ‘Welsh Government’-funded Nation.Cymru. ◊ WHERE WE AT? We’re in Carmarthenshire, around Brechfa, between the A485, …

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Saving The Planet – The Globalist Way!

Jac — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 07:30:40 +0000

This is something I considered putting out on X; in fact I did, briefly. But more digging made me realise it was so illustrative of the state of Wales it merited a piece on the briefly revived blog. ◊ HOW IT BEGAN It all started when I noticed a couple of unfamiliar vans in our …

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Bute Energy And Friends: Corrupting Wales

Jac — Wed, 08 May 2024 08:00:27 +0000

For a second week running, I’m focusing on Bute Energy. This time, looking at its links with the Labour party, and how, through that and by other means, Bute encourages corruption and spreads discord. This will also serve to bring those who haven’t been following the Bute saga up to date. ◊ THE FLOODGATES OPEN! …

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Bute Energy: Who’s Really Behind It?

Jac — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 17:30:19 +0000

I’m returning to the ‘Bute’ stable of companies, a subject I’ve ignored for a while. More especially, some aspects of Bute’s operations that may have been overlooked. 1/ How did investment company and property developers the Parabola group, from which Bute emerged, learn about the opportunities offered by wind turbines in Wales? 2/ We’ve been …

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Bute Energy Selling Wales For Danegeld?

Jac — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 09:15:55 +0000

Yeah, yeah, retirement. If only! ♦ THE STORY SO FAR . . . I’m returning to a subject I’ve tackled before because there have been developments. But before the update we’ll do a quick recap. Bute Energy Ltd, operating through a host of other new companies, hopes to build some 20 wind farms (at the …

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Playground Wales

Jac — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:46:14 +0000

Oh, the joy! the euphoria! Didn’t you feel the surge of national pride, the collective Cymric breast heaving, positively heaving, at the joyous news? – Lonely Planet declares ‘North’ Wales to be the bestest al fresco fun fair around. Well, obviously, it didn’t use those words (© Jac o’ the North), but that’s what it amounted …

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Beginning of the End

Jac — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:40:04 +0000

The Scottish independence referendum was ‘won’, Alex Salmond has resigned, ‘Loyalists’ roam the streets of Glasgow attacking Yes supporters and burning Scottish flags . . . danger over, what was all the fuss about? That, I’m sure, is how the less sophisticated among us will interpret – and be encouraged to interpret – the events …

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