The race to install Wales’ first tidal energy farm heated up yesterday after the government approved plans for a 1.2MW device in Ramsey Sound off Pembrokeshire. The £70m ‘Deltastream’ project was given the green light by Chris …

Plans for a power-generating tidal farm off the north Wales coast have been submitted. The £70m project for the underwater turbines, off the north west coast of Anglesey, was first announced three years ago. Marine Current Turbines (MCT) and RWE npower …

We must all play our part in this for the sake of future generations and the Welsh countryside is being asked to produce clean, safe energy where industrial Wales has previously delivered our energy at great cost to human life, health and habitat…

Wales Wild Land Foundation, formed in 2009, is developing the project at a 75 acre site at Blaeneinion Farm, near Furnace in Ceredigion. The two beavers, a male and female, will be transported from their current homes in Devon and Gloucestershire. …

Broomhill Farm, at Angle, in Pembrokeshire benefited from the PMG scheme last year with the funding contributing to the purchase of a brand new high specification temperature controlled potato storage facility. It allows the farm to command a premium …

Eddie Jones, who runs a farm in Cilycwm, Llandovery, said he and his wife – who works as a home carer – were struggling to cope with increasing fuel bills. “We would certainly welcome any relief we can get. The problem is that we are absorbing costs, …

A spokesman for Scottish and Southern Energy said: “The proposed Nant y Moch wind farm is located in an area identified by the Welsh Assembly Government as suitable for large-scale wind farm development. “The views of local communities are extremely …

The average week-on-week price for Welsh lamb in 2010 was 10% higher than in the previous year, thanks to tight supply and a strong export market. According to Wales’ levy-funded red meat development body, Hybu Cig Cymru, the number of lambs …

… and bearing in mind the Welsh Assembly’s energy policy, then it’s very likely to be approved.” Gower Society member Gordon Howe said he hoped the appeal decision would show wind farm developers they were up against a force to be reckoned with, …

As county chairman for the Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) in Caernarfonshire, he invited Welsh MEP Jill Evans to inspect the impact of the management restrictions. The SSSI at Gallt-y-Bwlch was one of two management regimes imposed on the farm by the …