{"id":55507,"date":"2025-11-03T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T09:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/?p=55507"},"modified":"2025-11-03T10:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T10:06:07","slug":"the-parasites-keep-a-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/the-parasites-keep-a-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Parasites Keep a-Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/the-parasites-keep-a-coming\/#comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-55338 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Comments-box-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"36\" \/><\/a>I hadn&#8217;t planned this but you&#8217;re reading it because it illustrates what&#8217;s happening over much of Wales. Though this case is a bit of an oddity in that it&#8217;s official but there&#8217;s no info beyond the bare bones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u25ca<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LLANTEG<\/p>\n<p>Our story focuses on the hamlet of Llanteg, Pembrokeshire; pinned in the centre of the map below. The reason for going there is that certain companies are planning a &#8216;Green Energy Park&#8217; and a &#8216;400kV substation&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Llanteg-map.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-55508\" src=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Llanteg-map.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Llanteg-map.png 1478w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Llanteg-map-600x328.png 600w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Llanteg-map-1024x560.png 1024w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Llanteg-map-350x191.png 350w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Llanteg-map-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Llanteg-map-900x492.png 900w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Llanteg-map-1280x700.png 1280w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Llanteg-map-300x164.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How do I know? Well, someone sent me various documents from which I&#8217;ve extracted the panel you see below. It comes from the latest update of the <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1kmB01REpUjD7xzBSiiHwl9o8gwvu4zSr\/view?usp=sharing\">Transmission Entry Capacity (TEC) register<\/a> produced by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neso.energy\">National Systems Energy Operator<\/a> (NESO).<\/p>\n<p>If you scroll down to the second sheet of the register you&#8217;ll see what I&#8217;ve clipped for you below. Both entries link to the &#8211; non-existent &#8211; &#8216;Llanteg 400kV Substation&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Llanteg.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-55510\" src=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Llanteg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Llanteg.png 1358w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Llanteg-600x224.png 600w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Llanteg-1024x383.png 1024w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Llanteg-350x131.png 350w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Llanteg-768x287.png 768w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Llanteg-900x337.png 900w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Llanteg-1280x479.png 1280w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Llanteg-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The person who sent me this information keeps abreast of these matters, but this was all new to him.<\/p>\n<p>I tried an internet search for this project, but turned up nothing apart from a vague reference to Community Energy in Pembrokeshire (CEP). <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.cymru\/partners-directory\/community-energy-pembrokeshire\">Here&#8217;s the website<\/a>, and here <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/07574961\">the Companies House entry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/llanteg-village.co.uk\">the Llanteg village website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Llanteg is outside the national park I went to the council website and checked through planning applications. But drew a blank.<\/p>\n<p>Next, I wrote to the council planning department, and here&#8217;s part of their reply:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am having trouble locating any information regarding the two highlighted in your screenshot. Please can you provide a site map for me to investigate further?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mmm. Clearly, the council knows nothing.<\/p>\n<p>As I say, the only references I found to renewable energy were all small-scale, &#8216;community&#8217;-type ventures. But I suspect what we&#8217;re looking at is very commercial. I say that due to the names linked with the projects in the panel above.<\/p>\n<p>So who are the companies named on the NESO document?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u25ca<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LLANTEG GREEN ENERGY PARK<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Green Energy Park&#8217; is in the name of NP SPV30 Ltd. And that outfit&#8217;s been <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/15006757\">registered with Companies House<\/a> since July 2023. One of a <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/search?q=NP+SPV\">string of numbered companies<\/a>, now up to 50. (Maybe more by the time you read this.)<\/p>\n<p>One of those companies that converted into a named project was NP SPV 31 Ltd, which is now <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/14673340\">Gwyddelwern Energy Ltd<\/a>. This being the name of a village on the A494 between Corwen and Rhuthun. So let&#8217;s detour briefly and look into it.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimate ownership of this project is with:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Gwyddelwern-ownership.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-55513\" src=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Gwyddelwern-ownership.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Gwyddelwern-ownership.png 948w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Gwyddelwern-ownership-600x111.png 600w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Gwyddelwern-ownership-350x65.png 350w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Gwyddelwern-ownership-768x142.png 768w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Gwyddelwern-ownership-900x166.png 900w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Gwyddelwern-ownership-300x55.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heading back down to Pembrokeshire, ultimate ownership of NP SPV30 Ltd, the Llanteg Green Energy Park project, rests, <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/15006757\/persons-with-significant-control\">via Natpower UK Ltd<\/a>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/14391349\/persons-with-significant-control\">Mr Fabrizio Zago<\/a>, an Italian living in Monaco.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/15006757\/officers\">directors for the Llanteg Green Energy Park<\/a> project, we see two names; a British subject with an Italian name (Sommadossi) who I&#8217;m satisfied is an associate of Zago, and an American.<\/p>\n<p>This American, Benjamin Aaron Ben Tre, <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/YxrimRPvly9VkGzScir5ihPStdU\/appointments?page=1\">took up 40 directorships on May 1 this year<\/a>. All linked with Natpower and all using the same Mayfair address.<\/p>\n<p>More interestingly, perhaps, Ben Tre was involved with Stefano Danilo Massimo Sommadossi in other companies a few years back. I would guess the reason these companies are listed separately is because the name is spelled Ben Tr\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start with <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/09998320\">Coincident Energy Ltd<\/a> (10.02.2016 &#8211; 17.09.2019). No money ever went through the books, but then again, this company was <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/09998320\/persons-with-significant-control\">controlled from the British Virgin Islands<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Next up in chronological order is <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/09998337\">Influence Power Ltd<\/a> (10.02.2016 &#8211; 17.09.2019). Another company with nothing in the pot, and controlled by Coincident Energy.<\/p>\n<p>The third company used as its address a flat overlooking the Thames in Wandsworth, presumably leased by Sommadossi, who was then still an Italian citizen.<\/p>\n<p>The company was called <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/12384306\">QMobility Ltd<\/a> (03.01.2020 &#8211; 21.12.2021). It began life with directors Sommadossi, Ben Tr\u00e9, another Italian named Stefano Madeddu, and a second American by the name of Jonas Lauren Norr.<\/p>\n<p>This is interesting. Norr seems to be based at Miami Beach. And an internet search suggests he founded a company called <a href=\"https:\/\/ethosinvestments.com\">Ethos Investments<\/a>. Which is the company Ben Tr\u00e9&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/benjamin-ben-tre\/details\/experience\">Linkedin page<\/a> says he&#8217;s still working for. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jonas-lauren-norr-2599703\/details\/experience\">Norr&#8217;s info from Linkedin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, at the end of its brief life, despite filing no accounts, and apparently doing nothing, Sommadossi and Ben Tr\u00e9 had over ten million QMobility shares.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Shareholders.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-55517\" src=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Shareholders.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Shareholders.png 912w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Shareholders-600x394.png 600w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Shareholders-350x230.png 350w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Shareholders-768x504.png 768w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Shareholders-900x591.png 900w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Shareholders-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To conclude where we started this section, with Natpower, and after seeing names like Zago, Sommadossi, Madeddu, you will not be surprised to learn that this outfit is, to all intents and purposes, <a href=\"https:\/\/natpower.com\/our-team\/#next\">an Italian company<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Building a &#8216;Green Energy Park&#8217; in Pembrokeshire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u25ca<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>E R PROJECT DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LTD<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t find a website for this company, the one named in connection with the 400kV substation, but here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/14420107\">the Companies House entry<\/a>. It was Incorporated October 14, 2022. Based in Marlborough, Wiltshire<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/14420107\/officers\">two named directors<\/a> are: Harry Marcus George Lopes, who&#8217;s British; and American Giovanni Rossario Maruca. When you flip to &#8216;significant control&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/14420107\/persons-with-significant-control\">you see the name Eden Devco (UK) LLP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are <a href=\"https:\/\/open.endole.co.uk\/explorer\/postcode\/sn8-2dp\">23 companies registered<\/a> at this luxury holiday accommodation site, but Eden Devco seems to be the only one with assets. Though nothing in the most recent accounts explains these assets.<\/p>\n<p>This company has Lopes and Maruca as members, with these two now rubbing shoulders with <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/OC423424\/officers\">a couple of English aristos and some other interesting names<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Including two US companies, one in Florida, the other in New Jersey. It&#8217;s the one in New Jersey I wish to focus on, because a company with that name has cropped up on this blog before.<\/p>\n<p>The name is Belltown Eden Ventures Corp. This company <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/OC423424\/persons-with-significant-control\">controls the voting rights over Eden Devco (UK) Ltd<\/a>, and ultimately the Llanteg substation. And although giving a New Jersey address it&#8217;s governed by the laws of the State of Delaware. I assume that&#8217;s because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delawareinc.com\/blog\/why-delaware-corporate-law-matters-so-much\">Delaware is &#8216;business friendly&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Belltown is also an investor in land destined for renewable energy projects. We target property with strong fundamentals and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\">proximity to power infrastructure<\/span> in our core markets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u223c<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The other Belltown &#8211; in the form of Belltown Power of Bristol &#8211; is one of the three companies (we know of) waiting to desecrate the Elenydd, the unspoilt country east of Lampeter, which I wrote about in November 2023, in <a href=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/the-road-to-hell\">The Road To Hell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Where I explained that\u00a0when you trace back ownership of Belltown Power you reach <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/12479510\/persons-with-significant-control\">Blackmead Infrastructure c\/o The Foresight Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Establishing the ultimate ownership of Blackmead Infrastructure is not straightforward. The first step is easy enough, <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/08928992\/persons-with-significant-control\">it&#8217;s Averon Park Ltd<\/a>. But the Companies House entry for Averon Park shows <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/08669482\/persons-with-significant-control\">no one with significant control<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Though <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/08669482\/filing-history\">a hell of a lot of shares<\/a> have been allotted lately. While the latest confirmation statement from Averon Park (30.06.2025) tells us Foresight Fund Managers is in control.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Foresight-Fund-Managers.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-55558\" src=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Foresight-Fund-Managers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Foresight-Fund-Managers.png 905w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Foresight-Fund-Managers-600x245.png 600w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Foresight-Fund-Managers-350x143.png 350w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Foresight-Fund-Managers-768x313.png 768w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Foresight-Fund-Managers-900x367.png 900w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Foresight-Fund-Managers-300x122.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is that 1.56 billion shares, am I reading it right?<\/p>\n<p>Foresight has an office in Cardiff, and recently appointed Phil Sampson to manage its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foresight.group\/news\/phil-sampson-joins-foresight-to-help-manage-50-million-investment-fund-for-wales\">\u00a3130 million Investment Fund for Wales<\/a>. Aren&#8217;t you grateful?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the long and winding road eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10452886\/persons-with-significant-control\">takes us to Guernsey<\/a>. And once you&#8217;re on that island, who knows who owns what?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u223c<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is frustrating, but it looks as if there are two companies using the Belltown name. One in Bristol, with a windfarm project in the Elenydd, that traces to the USA; the other in Wiltshire, planning a substation in east Pembrokeshire, linked to the Foresight Group and Guernsey. Both in the &#8216;renewables&#8217; and &#8216;natural capital&#8217; rackets.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s no obvious connection. Unless <em>you<\/em> know different?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u25ca<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>CONCLUSION<\/p>\n<p>Once again, I find myself reporting companies from God knows where planning lucrative projects in Wales. What makes Llanteg perhaps unique is that no one seems to know anything about it!<\/p>\n<p>Yet the fact that these entries are on the TEC register tells us an agreement has been reached. But who are the parties to the agreement? Have these companies done a deal with a private landowner? Or with the &#8216;Welsh Government&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>Are there any more Llantegs in the pipeline?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the answer to those questions, the map below explains why Llanteg is attractive. The black lines you see are carrying power from Pembroke power station, first to the cities and towns of the south, and then to England.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Llanteg-lines.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-55528\" src=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Llanteg-lines.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Llanteg-lines.png 1163w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Llanteg-lines-600x419.png 600w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Llanteg-lines-1024x715.png 1024w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Llanteg-lines-344x240.png 344w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Llanteg-lines-768x536.png 768w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Llanteg-lines-900x628.png 900w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Llanteg-lines-300x209.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which serves to remind us that &#8211; if the capacity is there &#8211; then any number of new projects can link up to transmission lines.<\/p>\n<p>And that applies to the new lines planned to run through the Tywi and Teifi valleys on their way to Llandyfaelog; also the line north, then north east, and over the border to Lower Frankton in Shropshire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Map-with-key-Topaz-Gigapixel-2x-scale-scaled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-55530\" src=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Map-with-key-Topaz-Gigapixel-2x-scale-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Map-with-key-Topaz-Gigapixel-2x-scale-scaled.png 1902w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Map-with-key-Topaz-Gigapixel-2x-scale-446x600.png 446w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Map-with-key-Topaz-Gigapixel-2x-scale-761x1024.png 761w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Map-with-key-Topaz-Gigapixel-2x-scale-178x240.png 178w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Map-with-key-Topaz-Gigapixel-2x-scale-768x1034.png 768w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Map-with-key-Topaz-Gigapixel-2x-scale-1141x1536.png 1141w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Map-with-key-Topaz-Gigapixel-2x-scale-1522x2048.png 1522w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Map-with-key-Topaz-Gigapixel-2x-scale-900x1211.png 900w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Map-with-key-Topaz-Gigapixel-2x-scale-1280x1723.png 1280w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Map-with-key-Topaz-Gigapixel-2x-scale-223x300.png 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In fact, I predict these new pylon runs will act as magnets for every eco-shyster between Bristol and the British Virgin Islands, Luxembourg and Lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>To the point where rural Wales, outside of national parks, will resemble a post-apocalyptic wasteland of steel and fibreglass, erratically producing electricity Wales doesn&#8217;t need, and providing us with no benefits whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>Interspersed of course with areas being &#8216;rewilded&#8217; by charities and environmental groups that took corporate funding as payment for destroying Welsh farming and a way of life.<\/p>\n<p>And all the while, the clown show in Corruption Bay, its propagandists and apologists, promise us &#8216;local ownership&#8217; and &#8216;community benefits&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Those lying bastards that have been selling us down the river for 26 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u2666 end \u2666<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Royston Jones 2025<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnjs.buymeacoffee.com\/1.0.0\/button.prod.min.js\" data-name=\"bmc-button\" data-slug=\"editor4\" data-color=\"#FFDD00\" data-emoji=\"\" data-font=\"Cookie\" data-text=\"Buy me a coffee\" data-outline-color=\"#000000\" data-font-color=\"#000000\" data-coffee-color=\"#ffffff\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t planned this but you&#8217;re reading it because it illustrates what&#8217;s happening over much of Wales. 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