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Hydrogen | Celloedd tanwydd/fuel cells | Ynni Glân | Cydlynydd/Co-ordinator @HyCymru 🏴
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Cyhoeddwyd cynllun
#REPowerEU
@EU_Commission
heddiw:
I drawsnewid y system ynni a torri’r gadwyn ffosil tanwydd.
Mae’r saethau llwyd yn dangos coridorau
#hydrogen
.
Mi fasa saeth o’r gorllewin trwy Cymru yn trawsnewid ein system ynni a’n economi.
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Numbers!
#WALvIRE
🏴 Cymru / Wales
Pop 3.1m
GDP ~£75bn
GDP per capita ~£25k
🇮🇪 Éire / Ireland
Pop 5.1m
GDP ~£420bn
GDP per capita ~£80k
🤔 Something doesn’t add up.
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Siri, show me a candidate in the 2024 UK Election who is completely out of touch with his prospective constituency - and the times.
Cardiff West, vote
@Plaid_Cymru
✅
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"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
You're winning the fight
@RhunapIorwerth
Dal ati, gwych.
Our natural & normal aims for prosperity are shared - & supported - by people all over the world.
"It's in our hands"🏴
“Most people watching this morning will agree that something is fundamentally wrong currently with the UK. Part of the answer we’re putting forward is - let’s redesign the relationship.”
@RhunapIorwerth
on
@GMB
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Helo Cymru!
“UK identifies sites for critical minerals used in clean tech”
“Parts of North Wales also show promise for cobalt, nickel and manganese, all key metals for EV batteries.”
Cambrian Mtns, Pembs, Cardiff, Newport?!
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One of the election’s clear choices.
Plaid Cymru demands control of the Crown Estate.
To develop clean energy systems which best serve Wales’ needs.
And to fund resilient communities & infrastructure, as climate change wreaks havoc.
Or would you prefer to fund a King?
Wales needs powers over our natural resources - including the £835m worth Crown Estate - to protect our environment and tackle climate change, as in Scotland.
It's no shock that the Tories block this, but for Labour to do so shows how they take Wales for granted.
#bbcdebate
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The
@Plaid_Cymru
candidate for Cardiff West lives & works here.
Wants to represent the community, her peers.
The Labour Party candidate for Cardiff West is parachuted from London.
Answers to Knights & Peers in Westminster.
Back Kiera, not Keir.
✅ Vote Plaid Cymru
🏴 Back Wales
The election is tomorrow! 🗳️
Have you seen our billboard during this campaign?
Make sure we give a real voice to Cardiff West by electing a local resident to be your next MP!
Elect me to be your
@Plaid_Cymru
MP tomorrow to ensure we have someone who knows and cares about the
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Kiera putting in the hard yards all across Cardiff West.
Having canvassed with Kiera in Riverside/Pontcanna & Caerau, I can vouch for the fab reception she is receiving on the doorstep.
A local candidate who wants the best for Wales.
✅🏴
Vote
@Plaid_Cymru
Kiera not Keir’s 🪂
Yesterday afternoon we were in Pontcanna. Wonderful reception on the doorstep - as always thank you for your time and conversations!
This month alone I've walked around 326,000 steps canvassing all over Cardiff West! I'm doing this because I truly care about the future of our
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For pragmatic people in Wales who want to grow our economy.
For friends in rUK, EU & the rest of the world.
This is
@Plaid_Cymru
’s completely normal vision for 🏴
Which would establish us as a small, dynamic country.
We are in the right place, literally, at the right time.
📈
"I believe in independence [for Wales] but I'm not an isolationist in any way, I'm an internationalist"
Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth says he sees Welsh independence as "part of the redesigning of the UK"
#BBCLauraK
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The Crown Estate is an asset which must be controlled by Wales.
Our offshore energy resource is vast for our size. Wales’ territorial water area is the same as Germany’s.
We can profit & also dictate the rules of the great clean energy game which is underway - for our benefit.
Profits from the assets of Wales’ Crown Estate - worth £853m - currently go from Wales to the Treasury and the Royal Family.
📢 Wales should have control over our own natural resources, so that we can invest in our own communities.
🏴 Vote
@Plaid_Cymru
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Buying more stuff with more packaging and more waste spun as "heartening" and "a greener life".
Have you been living a greener life since the start of the pandemic?
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Sweden’s dash for green steel made from hydrogen
“Customers like Volvo and Danish turbine-maker Orsted openly admit that they are prepared to pay the green premium.”
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It’s a privilege supporting Kiera on the campaign trail.
Street after street, ward after ward, taking no one for granted in Cardiff West.
“You’re the only ones we’ve seen” say many.
✅ 🏴 Plaid Cymru candidates are your strong local & national voice.
2 days until the election! 🗳️
Some photos from our final canvassing session in Pontcanna for this election.☀️
Do you want to get involved in the final push of campaign? Get in touch!
Make sure you vote
@Plaid_Cymru
on July 4th to elect me as your next MP for Cardiff West!
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German Government to receive €12.6bn from a 2023 offshore wind auction, spread over a number of years & large upfront payments.
🏴=🇩🇪 Wales’ sea area is same size as Germany’s.
💷 Welsh ownership of Welsh resources would be a huge asset.
👍 Demand to devolve the Crown Estate.
The Crown Estate is worth £853m, but profits go directly to the UK Treasury and the Royal Family 😠
Our communities should benefit directly from any use of our natural resources - not for profits to leave Wales
Only Plaid Cymru demands the powers needed to transform Wales 🏴
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Crown Estate’s soaring profits & expected wealth/growth🤞 from GB Energy/renewables will fund UK stuff (but big slice for a king).
Much derived from Wales.
By simple maths, if this money was under control of Wales, people of Wales would derive much greater proportional benefit.
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How can anyone in Wales vote Labour after reading this short thread?
When Labour Senedd Members should be fighting for every penny of funding for Wales, they actually make the case for the £billions due to Wales to stay at Westminster!
Vote
@Plaid_Cymru
✅🏴
This is wild, like completely wild.
Last year, the same Labour MS demanded the UK government provide Wales “with its £5 billion share of consequential funding” from HS2.
Now, a week before Labour are elected as the UK government she’s revised the figure to £350m. 🤯
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Lessons for 🏴Cymru/Wales to also consider.
🇩🇰 Denmark:
🗳️ More democratic
💳 Own currency & central bank
👷♀️ Strong labour market - ‘flexicurity’
👴 Well-designed pension scheme
📱 Large media sector
Wellbeing = strong economy
(Denmark also has a huge clean energy sector.)
🧵
🇩🇰 Denmark is about two thirds the size of Scotland with a slightly larger population of 5.8 million. It comes in the top five of the
@scotianomics
Wellbeing Index.
👇 Here are five lessons for an independent Scotland.
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Stark choice on view & coming through loud & clear in
#BBCDebate
.
Between Rhun ap Iorwerth
@Plaid_Cymru
& Stephen Flynn
@theSNP
’s fair, social democratic model for Wales & Scotland.
And the no-change, neo-liberal model of Labour & Conservative.
The energy is in 🏴 & 🏴.
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Ireland has published its strategic rail plan which includes:
- lots of new lines
- electrification of current lines
- scope for hydrogen trains on other lines
Because it can. Wales can’t. Why not?
Report for Irish Gov by
@Arup
:
@swalesmetroprof
The All Island Strategic Rail Review is being published today. Looking forward to reading the Implementation Plan.
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🌼Plaid Cymru has outshone rivals on the campaign trail across Cardiff West with a superb local candidate
@Kiera_Plaid
With empathy, respect and by listening.
The lesser-spotted Labour candidate, parachuted-in from London, has been left in the shade. 🥀
✅
@Plaid_Cymru
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@TycunaTV
@aaolomi
You may have also learned that the Prince of Wales is not a prince of Cymru (Wales).
#NotMyPrince
But a title used to humiliate y Cymry (Welsh) by Edward I after English conquest & the wiping out of Llywelyn’s lineage.
Against all odds we & our language are Yma o Hyd -still here.
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Wedi fy syfrdanu bod gwyl yng Nghymru wedi gwahardd yr iaith Gymraeg. A’r rhesymau…!
@OwsWills
Gobsmacked that a festival in Wales effectively banned the Welsh language. And the reasons…!
Beth yw eich ymateb? What is your response?
@MumblesCouncil
@ComyGymraeg
@Jeremy_Miles
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Member of the audience after the
#BBCDebate
, interviewed by
@CFraserBBC
, was impressed by the “smaller” parties.
Never heard their messages before as media normally only provides a big stage for the two “big” parties.
Clear evidence for devolving media & broadcasting to Wales.
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He makes a good case for Welsh independence here.
Wales is much better resourced to deliver clean, homegrown power.
And we can supply way in excess of demand.
Diolch, Ed.
4/ The only long term solution to achieve energy independence is to sprint towards clean, homegrown power.
That’s why we are moving at pace to deliver on our mission for clean power, by lifting the onshore wind ban, consenting solar and getting more renewable projects built.
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@jevershed01
Diolch
@jevershed01
It’s now abundantly clear that Starmer’s GB Energy plans are dependent on Wales’ abundant resource & pliant agency.
This begs an obvious question for the people of Wales: why aren’t we doing this ourselves & for our primary benefit?
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So am I and the same applies to Wales.
Why, compared to the small European countries which have north Altantic-facing coasts, are Wales & Scotland’s economies in such a state?
We should be clean energy superpowers.
But we’re controlled by Westminster.
It’s the State we’re in.
I'm incredibly optimistic about Denmark's, Norway's, Finland's and Ireland's economies but absolutely not about Scotland's because its still controlled by Westminster.
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Nice visual from
@TheEconomist
Emphasises how Wales is so marginal to the UK political landscape.
And why a vote for
@Plaid_Cymru
is the only way for Wales to stand out & to be heard.
✅🏴
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Beautiful day to vote for Kiera Marshall in Cardiff West!
Your local candidate to support the community & its businesses.
☀️
Diwrnod hyfryd i bleidleiso dros Kiera yng Ngorllewin Caerdydd!
Eich ymgeisydd lleol i gefnogi’r gymuned a’i fusnesau.
✅
@Kiera_Plaid
🏴
@Plaid_Cymru
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How exactly is Great British Energy meant to benefit Wales?
We have all the resources we need - to power ourselves and make money.
Cut out the middlemen, we just need the powers.
@jevershed01
It appears that GB Energy will have an office in Scotland, maybe a branch office in Wales, to somehow finance (not develop) offshore wind in 🏴&🏴 to fill UK’s coffers? Before somehow, sometime 🏴&🏴 benefit?
Maybe we should just cut-out all the middlemen & do it ourselves?
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“The physics here is very basic and it tells us that we’re reaping what we’ve sown, we’re now experiencing devastating climate impacts.”
@MichaelEMann
Follow the scientists.
Impacts today in Puerto Rico, Japan & Alaska
#Fiona
#Nanmadol
"We are experiencing devastating consequences of past climate inaction," says climate scientist
@MichaelEMann
on this weekend's climate disasters in Puerto Rico, Japan and Alaska.
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Don’t let the powers that be take Wales for granted.
Be the powers.
Vote
@Plaid_Cymru
✅🏴
A vote for Plaid Cymru on Thursday is a 'Yes' to Wales.
Yes to HS2 cash
to Fair funding
to powers over the Crown Estate
to powers over Justice and Policing
While Starmer says 'no'.
Vote Plaid Cymru this Thursday.
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A day to warm the heart.
10,000+ marching & singing for independence in Cardiff.
And to use our heads. Great speech
@TadhgHickey
on the facts of Ireland’s rise, set against Wales’ decline.
#IndyWales
🏴
Diwrnod i godi calon. Ac i ddefnyddio’r pen.
#Annibyniaeth
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£25bn on a single Tube line for London!
Imagine spending just 10% of that on a proper, integrated, zero emission train/tram/bus network for the whole of Cymru/Wales.
That would get people out of their cars.
Don’t even need overhead lines for hydrogen trams. Could run anywhere!
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Great to hear
@Plaid_Cymru
focus on fairness, economy & wealth creation in & for Cymru/Wales.
Including demanding 🏴 fair share (£4bn!) of funding due from HS2 + devolution of Crown Estate towards an energy policy for 🏴 needs.
A hyfryd clywed yr iaith Gymraeg
@SkyNews
@BBCNews
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@Roneill1994
Is this the same shopping centre development which led to the destruction of the priceless Chartist mural?
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“Imagine what we could do with that £4bn for connectivity in Wales”
@RhunapIorwerth
This and more besides.
Solutions Made in Wales, by Wales.
😡The Conservative Transport Secretary, this morning, doubling down on refusing to pay Wales its fair share of HS2 consequentials.
Wales is being short changed to the tune of £4 BILLION.
Plaid Cymru are the only party demanding fairness for 🏴 from HS2.
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The parachuted Labour candidate for Cardiff West has landed - in west Wales.
Whereas your local candidate is
@Kiera_Plaid
for
@Plaid_Cymru
Taking no one for granted.
✅🏴 Vote Plaid Cymru
Campaigning with
@vaughangething
and the team in Whitland in
#Caerfyrddin
for the brilliant
@MarthaAngharad
.
Vote for change tomorrow!
#GeneralElection2024
#VoteLabour
🌹
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The response to
@Kiera_Plaid
in Cardiff West has been excellent.
Local candidate who is your advocate for improving the community & Wales.
Taking nobody for granted.
Respecting and representing everybody.
Kiera is your strong voice.
Vote
@Plaid_Cymru
✅
The last two days in between hustings we have been out chatting to residents in Canton and Pontcanna.
Only a few days now until the election - make sure we send a strong voice for Cardiff West to Westminster on July 4th by voting Plaid Cymru!
#Ge2024
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@RuralLeader
Full clip with
@ShashiTharoor
from 44.50:
Inc great but bitterly ironic line
@PennyRed
on how red mist of Empire clouded Brexiteers' "major fear is people will come to our country and take our things."
Full expose of brutal British Empire rule in India⬇️
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@BBCWalesNews
Protest & cheering outside
#Cardiff
Castle, Wales. Much of the latter by rent-a-crowd schoolchildren.
A few tourists too, for the spectacle.
The protest was significant, on two sides of the street. Well done.
In the meantime, along the street, poverty.
#NotMyKing
#NotMyPrince
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We may have won in the football but Cymru/Wales is so far behind Suomi/Finland in many other areas.
(Including education.)
Public transportation in Finland.
The country is known for its modern railway, as well as fast and comfortable trains. On a train children are free to play in areas specifically designed for them.
[📹 joshlevine485]
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The mindset needed in Wales.
Not to think as a devolved nation at the end of a leaky, trickle-down pipe from London.
But as a Norway, a Denmark or other successful, small-nation economy.
Would they settle for such a raw energy deal?
It's a tragic Scottish play too - with quotes⬇️
Electricity super-highway, eh? Imagine the Norwegian response to a gas export line with no Norwegian share in the upstream producers, pipeline, supply chain, the tax take, or the destination of the revenue.
"Therein the patient must minister to himself.”
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Ocean energy dwarfs that in the atmosphere, takes longer to store & which is then released.
“the vertical slice of the ocean from 0 to 2,000m deep gained about 10 zettajoules of heat between 2021 & 2022.
equal to about 100 times the world’s electricity generation in 2021”
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🇩🇪Germany earmarks $10 billion for
#hydrogen
expansion
"2 billion euros is to be spent on forging partnerships with countries where hydrogen can be efficiently produced"
🤔🏴 Wales' wind resource ⬇️
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Mae angen mynd i’r afael ar hyn ar frys.
Yr ardaloedd gwledig yw’r rhai sydd efo’r adnoddau - ond yno mae prisiau ynni’n uwch.
Model newydd gan Llywodraeth DU yw gosod Sir Gâr yn yr un parth trydan â Llundain.
Teg?
Ynni a phwerau lleol i bobl lleol.
Mae dileu'r taliad tanwydd gaeaf i'r rhan fwyaf o bensiynwyr yn dangos nad yw Llafur yn deall cefn gwlad.
Yn Sir Gâr, mae 68% yn byw mewn cartrefi ynni-aneffeithlon, ac mae llawer yn dibynnu ar ynni costus oddi ar y grid. Bydd y toriad yn ein taro'n galed.
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Local candidate
@Kiera_Plaid
was fab in last night’s Cardiff West hustings
@Plaid_Cymru
A clear, authentic voice for constituents & a better future for Wales🏴
Taking no one for granted.
Join our team & drive yesterday’s tired red/blue Lab/Con agenda into the political sunset.
Last night, I attended a hustings in
@citychurchcdf
. Thank you so much to the organisers and everyone who attended. It was great to hear all your questions and chat with some of you afterwards!
Want to attend one of the other events I'll be at?
Here is what we have planned so
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“I believe in Wales. I believe in our ability to craft our own future and I believe in our ability to build a state which is fit for that future.”
Wales is a nation, a country but not a state, yet.
Wales has all the required assets (resources, people etc) but not the levers.
‘The ability to transform Wales should not be at the whims of whichever party happens to be in charge in Westminster – it should rest with the Welsh Government’ ✍️
@CThomasMS
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Zero emission
#hydrogen
train travel arriving in Germany
@SiemensMobility
#Mireo
“A top speed of 160 km/h. The train has an operating range between 1,000 & 1,200 kilometers with one tank filling.
15 min fuelling time.”
Cardiff - Holyhead & back.
Twice, nearly.
🤔🏴
Mal wieder eine schöne Premiere Unser Wasserstoffzug
#Mireo
Plus H hat heute seine erste Testfahrt in Bayern gemacht 🤩 ✅
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6 mlynedd yn ôl, gwrthodwyd cais cynllunio ar gyfer tyrbein gwynt yn Llanaelhaearn. Oherwydd yr olygfa.
Bellach mi fasa wedi talu am ei hun a creu elw o £1.3m+ ar gyfer y cymuned. A lleihau allyrion carbon, wrth gwrs.
Da ni'm yn helpu ein hunain nac ydan?
#ArgyfwngHinsawdd
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Kiera knows so much more about Cardiff West than Keir’s parachutist.
✅ 🏴 Vote
@Plaid_Cymru
Where you might expect someone standing for election in Cardiff West might live vs where the Labour and Conservative candidates standing in Cardiff West live.
Thoughts? 🧐
Vote
@Plaid_Cymru
on July 4th.
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“Why is cheap renewable electricity so expensive?”
Very good article.
Laying bare that a renewable-rich country like Wales shouldn’t be paying high electricity prices.
And also why would south Wales be in the same proposed pricing zone as London? North Wales with Manchester?
Good artical by
@UKParliament
on why electricity prices are coupled with the price of gas prices and why this needs to change, they're actively consulting on this
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GB Energy is a gift for the SNP, Alba & Plaid Cymru too.
For arguments in favour of independence for Scotland & Cymru/Wales.
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It’s also an admission that without Scotland & Cymru/Wales’ renewable energy resource, Westminster’s net zero plans have zero chance of success.
Plans which require a pile-on of pylons too.
Who needs who most?
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How can anybody in Wales who wants to join the Single Market & Customs Union vote Labour after today’s manifesto launches?
#Brexit
@Plaid_Cymru
is clear about the fair benefits.
To include green growth & more trade with the $500bn economy next door 🇮🇪
🏴 languishes at £85bn
What is disrespectful to voters is for Labour and the Tories to deny the economic harm of Brexit
@Plaid_Cymru
’s policy of rejoining the single market and customs union is in all our interests
It’s time the other parties caught up with public opinion
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Croesi'r bont i annibyniaeth!
Miloedd yn Merthyr.
#AUOBMerthyr
🏴
@YesCymru
Crossing the bridge to independence! Thousands in Merthyr.
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Yes, the politics could be incredible - for Wales - if people realised that energy could be generated, stored & used locally & so “less massive pylons”.
And they might “queue up for wind turbines” as long as they were appropriate & locally-owned.
We need the powers.
The politics of this could be truly incredible… if they did this… then people across the UK would perhaps be queuing up for wind turbines, rather than protesting them. the more there were locally, the less massive pylon grid infrastructure would be required to transport
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Yes, revenues from Crown Estate but also ability for 🏴 to set the rules of the resource game on our terms.
Lessons can be learned from ScotWind auction which, while securing high bids, didn’t maximise the whole value chain opportunity for 🏴 as part of an industrial strategy.
Crown estate: why it’s time to devolve it and put Wales on par with Scotland
The Scottish purse fattens each year via its natural resources. How is it justified that Wales doesn’t also benefit directly from its own crown estate assets?
✍️
@stephenclear
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Westminster’s on-going struggle with a post-Empire narrative.
But Federalism proposed is at odds with everything Starmer is saying/doing.
As for Britishness… “a political synonym for Englishness which extends English culture over the Scots, the Welsh, & the Irish.” Gwynfor Evans
“England cannot become a progressive country while it holds other nations prisoner against their will.”
🖊️
@AnthonyBarnett
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"An LNG terminal that today receives gas can tomorrow be used to import green hydrogen"
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
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🔊Launching Wales
#Hydrogen
Trade Association today in Cardiff Bay!
@HyCymru
#HyCymru
⚡️💧With a hydrogen technology showcase.
🤝And a debate on hydrogen
@AssemblyWales
.
🚴🚴♂️Plus 2 hydrogen bikes outside Senedd from 12.30pm. Come and see them and ride them!
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If hydrogen is the zero emission solution for flat countries, it’s definitely the solution for hilly countries like Wales.
For our dairy and many other industries.
Behold, the world’s first hydrogen-powered milk delivery. This Hyzon HyMax 450 weighs in at 55 tons, driven by world-leading dairy cooperative
@FrieslndCampina
#dairytruck
#netherlands
#milk
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Future* generations seem to want Welsh independence.
Let’s listen to them and look after their well-being.
(*Many current ones, really.)
#IndyWales
“The surge in the overall poll in favour of a yes vote is only half the story. The true picture lies in our younger demographics. All of the younger polling groups (under the age of 35) poll above 50%, and the 18-24 year olds polling at 55%.”
Geraint Thomas, YesCymru
#IndyWales
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@NationCymru
@OwsWills
The other gas which Wales can produce in abundance is hydrogen.
Made from renewables & water.
In perpetuity. To help decarbonise our entire economy. To slash air pollution. And to build-up our sovereign wealth.
(It's what a lot of other countries are doing.)
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@NationCymru
In the run-up to Scotland’s 2014 IndyRef Denis Healey said: “I think they [Westminster politicians] are concerned about Scotland taking the oil. I think they are worried stiff about it.”
For oil, now read wind?
For Scotland, both Wales & Scotland?
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@NationCymru
@ShiptonMartin
Nation 🏴🇮🇪
Country 🏴🇮🇪
State 🇮🇪
The economic divergence between close Celtic neighbours of similar size is staggering.
Focus on energy.
An equal partnership based on renewables & green hydrogen.
It’s what the thriving, fair Scandinavian countries are doing.
Why not Cymru?
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@RhunapIorwerth
@Plaid_Cymru
“Ignoring growing calls to devolve the Crown Estate – done for Scotland in 2017 – is a tacit admission of how London & the South East of England, in particular, are reliant on the supply of electricity from Wales.
We can’t possibly let the Welsh control the source of energy!”
General election: no energy for Wales from Westminster
Wales could be in a strong position to develop our own clean growth economy. We could use the wealth to reinvest in our own country, culture, and communities. Why on earth aren’t we?
✍️
@GutoOwenH2
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…India’s decline from 23% of global GDP to just 3% during this period is mirrored by the UK's rise from ~2% to 10%.
Or, trillions were taken out of the Indian economy to fuel the UK's. And to pay for the Napoleonic and other Wars.
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Back a hydrogen economy to keep young people in Wales.
Finland eyes hydrogen as a €33bn added value opportunity. By 2035.
Small, peripheral European countries with good resources can thrive. Many already are.
Why are young people leaving Wales?🏴
🧵Sky News has spoken to three Welsh people, who are all in their twenties, about why they decided to move to England👇
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“Wales' biggest universities facing huge cost cutting as thousands of staff offered voluntary redundancy”
Should dominate news but just another example of savage cuts these days.
Compare with Ireland.
New €2.4bn innovation & tech campus.
3,000 jobs.
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“Wales was one of the great crucibles of the Industrial Revolution”
@AmgueddfaCymru
“Something extraordinary was happening in Wales 200yrs ago when it became the world's 1st region to industrialise & it would change the world”
@thehistoryguy
We should be wealthier than Norway.
The Penydarren locomotive was the first train journey ever recorded in south Wales, 220 years ago
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The Irish “State could be accruing €20 billion in windfall taxes annually in less than three years.”
These WINDFALLS are about the same as the ENTIRE Welsh Government budget.
Beyond these corporate tax recepits, Ireland is also set for a bounty from wind & hydrogen.
Is Wales?
The UK and Norway both discovered vast quantities of oil and gas in 1970s. The two countries used their newfound wealth in entirely different ways, and there's lessons for Ireland in this
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Estonia’s majority state-owned renewables company Enefit Green is scaling-up rapidly.
The shareholders of the company are:
🇪🇪 77% Republic of Estonia
💶 23% investment funds, pension funds, retail investors
Enefit Green is to acquire the 1GW Liivi Offshore wind farm in the Estonian Gulf of Riga from Eesti Energia.
#offshorewind
#Estonia
#renewableenergy
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This, over 4yrs ago.
Rhun led
@SeneddWales
debate on hydrogen & has been Wales’ strongest political advocate of the fuel of the future, inc for steel, ever since.
That future has now arrived.
Hydrogen is a global opportunity.
Rhun gets it, always has.
🏴 needs his leadership.
Edrych ymlaen at arwain dadl yn y Cynulliad rwan ar botensial ynni hydrogen, cyn mynychu lansiad
@HyCymru
heno.
Looking forward to leading a debate in the Assembly on hydrogen energy's potential, and to attend launch of Wales Hydrogen Trade Association this evening.
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Diolch/Thanks for publishing my article & to
@GwernGwynfil
for effectively commissioning it.
Gwern has broadened the reach of
@YesCymru
superbly & progressed work on the vital economic territory.
Our energy should focus on the big picture - & prize - in 2024.
Nadolig Llawen
💪🏴
“The biggest risk is not to be investing at scale and quickly into clean tech … The virtuous circle is to invest in the development of clean energy … The vicious circle is one of continued managed decline.”
✍️
@GutoOwenH2
for
@YesCymru
#TalkingPoints
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Compare & contrast 2 very close Celtic countries.
Ireland 🇮🇪📈
€13bn windfall seen as a blow & what to do with it? Adds to €9bn 2024-25 budget SURPLUS.
Wales 🏴📉
Cuts across board inc pensioners' winter fuel allowance from £23bn TOTAL gov budget. Is it the State we're in?
There's no doubt the ruling forcing Apple to pay Ireland €13bn plus interest is a significant blow to the State's reputation, but the big question is what is going to happen to the money now? David Murphy looks at the some of the options
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“Labour go-ahead for march of the pylons.
Transporting Scotland’s green power to England”
We’re being sold a pup that such stuff is essential for net zero.
It’s corporate wealth extraction enabled by government.
There are smarter, local energy solutions…
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By claiming that Scotland’s vast energy resource can create wealth/jobs/lower bills for the UK (= England, mostly) it therefore follows that 🏴 would derive much greater benefit by developing its energy resource 1st & foremost for its own needs.
Same applies to Cymru/Wales🏴
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Hydrogen bus crosses Alps reaching elevations >1,700m with gradients of up to 15% on a 368km route….but still has 42% left in the tank!
Fuel cell tech is amazing.
Zero emissions. No compromises.
Fuel cells supplied by
@toyota_europe
to
@MercedesBenz
Toyota has a 🏴 factory
The
@MercedesBenz
ECitaro
#FuelCell
is conquering the Alpine Challenge, defying extreme cold and steep passes! 🏔️ With its cutting-edge technology, this electric bus proves its reliability even in the harshest conditions🚌
#H2
#HydrogenNow
#HydrogenNews
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True before the election & its manifestos; manifestly obvious now.
GB Energy is a gift for the SNP, Alba & Plaid Cymru too.
For arguments in favour of independence for Scotland & Cymru/Wales.
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@aljhlester
@Sathnam
Aden High Commissioner Richard Turnbull (ex-Kenya, Mau-Mau!) told Denis Healey:
“When the British Empire sank beneath the waves of history, it would leave behind only two monuments: one was the game of Association Football, the other was the expression “F**k off”.’
⬇️
@James_Barr
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@GwernGwynfil
🎯
Croatia 6th, Cyprus 3rd. Cymru would be in very good company on this economic resilience chart & on UN’s A-Z.
🇺🇳
🇭🇷Croatia
🏴Cymru
🇨🇾Cyprus
🇮🇪1st Ireland: budget bounty
🇩🇰5th Denmark: renewables power
🇲🇹And what was said about Malta, 2nd…
#IndyWales
In January 1959, The Times published the following:
"Malta cannot live on its own... the economy would collapse without British Treasury subventions. Talk of full independence for Malta is therefore hopelessly impractical."
🧵👇
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🚨🏴
Denmark’s $14bn offshore wind tender.
Output = 100% of 🇩🇰’s electricity demand [assume equivalent] + hydrogen + e-fuels.
Subsidy-free.
State takes 20% stake + long-term lease revenue.
Why doesn’t Wales do this?
And leave onshore wind for local, appropriate development.
The Danish Energy Agency has published 6GW of tender frameworks across 6 offshore wind farm areas.
#offshorewind
#Denmark
#renewableenergy
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Mae’r ymateb i
@Kiera_Plaid
yng Ngorllewin Caerdydd wedi bod yn wych.
Ymgeisydd lleol sydd yn angerddol dros wella’r gymuned a Chymru.
Rhowch lais i Kiera drwy bleidleisio
@Plaid_Cymru
✅
Yn ystod y ddau ddiwrnod diwethaf, rhwng yr hystings, rydyn ni wedi bod allan yn sgwrsio â thrigolion Treganna a Phontcanna.
Dim ond ychydig o ddyddiau nawr tan yr etholiad - gwnewch yn siŵr ein bod yn anfon llais cryf dros Orllewin Caerdydd i San Steffan ar y 4ydd o Orffennaf
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Arriving soon in California: First intercity zero-emission, hydrogen passenger trains in North America
Could be the Llanelli - Caerfyrddin line.
Or is it Bermo - Harlech?
Maybe Bangor - Conwy!
via
@ivpnews
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Journalists (inc in Cymru/Wales), please consider asking any or all of the following questions in relation to GB Energy:
1. How will it cut bills?
2. Exactly HOW will it cut bills?
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Jürgen Klopp makes the case for Welsh independence!🚀
“You have to change from a doubter to a believer”
The case gets more & more compelling - & reasons galore here.
The assets v liabilities issue of indy is interesting on energy. We have fab assets but low eg oil liabilities.
From doubters to believers: the economic argument for Welsh independence
It’s often said that Wales can’t afford independence. Is it true?
@evjthom
has done some reading on this. Surely we should know the facts so we can better choose how to act on them?
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Gwych! Brilliant!
Made in Wales hydrogen cars on the road in Wales!
#circulareconomy
✅ 500km on 1.5kg of H2.
✅ A car for the 21st century.
✅ Water in, water out.
✅ With some help from the sun.
☀️ 🌬 ⚡💧 ♻️ ♾ 🏴
Real world testers have been taking to the road in our cars. Updates to follow soon!
#HydrogenNow
⚡️
#RiversimpleBetaTest
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Independence means that Scotland & Cymru/Wales would follow in the footsteps of small, north Atlantic coastal states such as Norway & Denmark.
By maximising energy wealth as a powerful tool for funding public services & providing a high standard of living for its citizens.
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“In the fuel cell, we have far less rare raw material"
#Hydrogen
♻️
#Commodities
📈
#SupplyChains
🌍
@DaimlerTruck
chief warns cost of electric will ‘forever be higher’
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Not the slight on Wales - by name omission - that it seems.
At the same time, the Laws in Wales Acts constitutionally annexed Wales into England. With oppression.
These were no Acts of Union (a PR term spun centuries later), more acts of colonialism.
Dissolved? More destroyed!
A map of the monasteries of England dissolved by King Henry VIII.
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2K
14K
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🇳🇴 In Norway, by 2026 only ships with zero emission solutions will be allowed entrance into fjords.
Result? Fuel cell ships to sail in early 2020s.
Lesson? Regulators set the rules and tech responds, quickly.
.
@PowercellA
and
#Havyard
are developing a zero emission
#hydrogen
fuel cell system for ferries
#H2View
#decarbonise
#hydrogennow
#fuelcellsnow
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Fel Cyfarwyddwr
#Hydrogen
newydd
@MenterMon
, mi fydd hwn yn tipyn o reid! Diolch i bawb am gael ni ar y siwrna heb lygredd yma.
As
@MenterMon
's new
#Hydrogen
Director, this will be some ride! Thanks to all for setting us on this
#zeroemission
journey.
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6 years ago, planning permission for a wind turbine in Llanaelhaearn was refused. Because of the view.
By now, it would have paid for itself & created a £1.3m fund for the community. And cut carbon emissions, of course.
We're not helping each other, are we?
#ClimateEmergency
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🔊 On Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Day, it's great to announce that leading businesses and organisations 👇 are bonding to create
#HydrogenCymru
.
🏴 To advance
#hydrogen
in Wales, the land which gave
#fuelcells
to the world in 1842!
#HydrogenNow
#FuelCellsNow
@H2Europe
🙋♀️🙋🏾♂️Join in!
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Ladybird books inspired generations of readers.
This page makes the East India Company sound so benign.
“The Court of the Mogul at Delhi was one of the richest in the world.”
Elizabeth I arranged for “trade between England & India”
So began the biggest loot in history.
New books?
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“If we can’t afford it, we can’t do it”
Rachel Reeves, Labour’s UK Chancellor
Months before 2024 austerity budget.
Hinkley Point nuclear power station cost: ~£140bn over 35yrs.
Wales’ contribution: ~£200m/yr.
(Plus grid costs.)
Wales’ needs: 0
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Mae Cymru ar werth.
Wales is for sale: Why Cymru needs a Land Reform Act
Very important read which goes to the heart of the economic matter.
Land, seas, energy, housing & other resources.
Our natural capital is substantial but these assets are being stripped.
We need change.
Sales of farmland on the open market tend to favour those from more affluent areas of the UK, those who statistically have more disposable income to invest.
✍️Ken Moon
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