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Papers relating to Airtricity's proposed windfarm at Nant-y-moch, Ceredigion, and CCAG's opposition. In Jan. 2010, Airtricity became SSE Renewables, part of the Scottish & Southern Energy group.

Notes taken at public meetings, conferences, visits, site visits etc., notes taken of radio broadcasts and publications, mixed in with rough notes, contact details of supporters, media and politicians etc., and domestic notes.

Correspondence with OFGEM, including relating to the splitting of Cefn Croes into the Cefn Croes and New Werfa.

Letters and other papers relating to Scottish windfarms and campaigns, including the Braes of Doune, co. Stirling, and Kilbraur and Gordonbush windfarms, both co. Sutherland, and including correspondence with Allan Tubb of LandScape.

Box of roughly sorted newspaper cuttings, notes, correspondence and other papers relating to other anti-wind campaigns in Wales, including Mynydd y Betws, co. Carm., 2001-2005, Pentre Tump, co. Rad., 2002-2003, Scarweather Sands, 2002-2004, Mynydd-y-gwair, co. Carm., 2004-2005, Brechfa Forest, 2005-2009, Dyfnant Forest, 2006, and Rhos-y-garn, 2006-2008. Also Romney Marsh, co. Sussex, Vagar Hill, co. Here., and Powys objections to Cefn Croes.

Publications of PowerGen relating to the Rheidol power station, and publications of various other organisations, including BWEA, National Trust and WaveGen.

Copies of various documents, including Electricity Supply Industry (Rateable Values) statutory instruments for England and Wales, 2000; Cefn Croes wind farm land management framework document, c.2000, and plan, 2004; planning obligation by Cambrian Winds Energy Ltd, the National Assembly for Wales and ADAS Consulting Ltd to Cyngor Ceredigion relating to land at Cefn Croes, 2002; transcript of Kaye Little's application for a judicial review of the secretary of state for trade and industry not to hold a public inquiry into the Cefn Croes planning application, 2002; draft article by Kaye Little of a visit to Cefn Croes, 2004; and papers relating to the management and restoration of the damaged mire, 2005. Also a copy of Elizabeth Mann, 'Force 10: political will v. landscape protection', c.2003, a sequel to 'The long fight to save Barningham High Moor', Co. Durham.

Contemporaneous rough notes made on site at Cefn Croes during construction, including a visit by an Australian television documentary crew for '60 minutes', Oct. 2004. Also invoices for aerial photographs from Martin Jones of Cloud Nine Photography, Church Stretton, and Whizzard Helicopters of Welshpool, April 2005.

Unfiled letters and related material, including 'Sustainable cities: the EU experience, a seminar series hosted by Jean Lambert, London's Green MEP' (2002), correspondence with Mark Williams MP and other politicians, 2004-2008, and 'Conservation plan for Cefn Croes windfarm, 2005 to 2030' (Forestry Commission, 2007).

Papers relating to the Cambrian Mountains Society/Cymdeithas Mynyddoedd Cambria, Kaye Little's membership, and society activities and publications. Also an unattributed report, 'A project for Strata Florida: a concept note', [post 2002].

Papers relating to the CPRW, including copies of 'Cymru wledig/Rural Wales', 1997-2007; a legal opinion for CPRW and the Speyside Environmental Protection Group on Cefn Croes and an unnamed windfarm in Speyside, 2002; papers relating to the Ceredigion branch, 2003-2007; Kaye Little's notes of the contentious CPRW council meetings of March and June 2007; and correspondence, 2007.

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.

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.

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

Letters relating to CCAG's FOI request into the DTI minister's decision-making process.

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.

Papers mainly relating to CCAG's appeal to the Information Tribunal, 2006-2008, including related papers, 2001-2002, including more and less heavily redacted copies of the minister, Brian Wilson's grants of planning consent, Dec. 2001 and May 2002.

Correspondence relating to requests for information, mainly between Kaye Little and the Welsh Assembly Government, the Forestry Commission and the Information Commissioner's Office.

Correspondence with David Morgan Jones, ex-Aberystwyth retired solicitor and supporter of CCAG.

File of Helen Kaye's letters to newspapers, and newspaper cuttings and photocopies. Also a WindPower note on 'The energy balance of modern wind turbines', Dec. 1997, and other similar reports, a report on a WDA sponsored workshop on 'The integration and promotion of sustainable development in the Ystwyth valley', 2002, a report by John Philips, 'Environmental problems at the Braes of Doune wind farm', Aug. 2006, a paper by Sir Leslie Fielding, 'Global warming', given to the Ludlow Civic Society, 2006, and the executive summary of a report by Friends of the Braes, 'Scandal on the Braes: environmental law and the River Teath special area of conservation', [post Dec. 2006], and related correspondence.