07/02/00 Emily Hinshelwood sends email to chat group 'women led renewable energy projects' stating that she has 3 donors and that 12 - 13,000 people will be consulted and 20 villages will be involved
29/03/00 AAT incorporated as a Private Limited Company with no share capital at Companies House
22/06/00 A Free Vote for 13,500 people would cost AAT £10,000
26/06/00 South Wales evening post - AAT claim up to £200k income from turbines
July 2000
01/07/00 AAT members canvas residents opinions by knocking on doors and carrying out short interviews
01/07/00 Scheme will only go ahead if there is support from the nearest villages (on the map given out be AAT this comprises of only 5 villages)
01/07/00 Dan McCallum explains that there will be £1 'shares'
13/07/00 Tairgwaith residents persuade AAT to hold a free vote and not a 15% sample
19/07/00 Tairgwaith Public meeting
August 2000
05/08/00 Windfarm Visit - Carno
09/08/00 Stephenie Howell Attends a Phase One interview with AAT
10/08/00 Members of TAG attend AAT's Public Meeting in Rhiwfawr
10/08/00 Terry Howell attends Phase one interview with AAT
19/08/00 Letter of Objections acknowledged by Neath & Port Talbot County Borough Council (NPTCBC)
19/08/00 Letter and Pamphlet explaining TAG's concerns over the AAT project sent to 65 Councillors of NPTCBC
27/08/00 Windfarm Visit - Carno
31/08/00 A profile of Helen Davies in the South Wales Guardian - the article is more of an advert for AAT than information on what Helen Davies has done for the community. Helen claims that at least £200k income could be raised. Referendum to be held Feb 01.
September 2000
01/09/00 BBC Online article on AAT - Group have received permission to use Teletubbie image
01/09/00 AAT offices are located in Gwaun Cae Gurwen - (South Wales Guardian)
07/09/00 TAG Officially formed
07/09/00 TAG log on to AAT's Website - there is no guest book
10/09/00 Site meeting with Dewi Evans - (Plaid Cymru)
11/09/00 TAG members attend Cwmllynfell Public Meeting
18/09/00 Gwenda Thomas AM launches AAT's Website
25/09/00 Windfarm Visit - Carno
26/09/00 South Wales Guardian - AAT offices are 'in Tairgwaith' and the project is referred to as the 'Tairgwaith Windfarm'
27/09/00 Windfarm Visit - Carno
28/09/00 First Sighting of wind speed testing mast on Mynydd Uchaf by Tairgwaith resident
October 2000
02/10/00 TAG members attend GCG public Meeting
14/10/00 TAG meeting with Gwenda Thomas at Tairgwaith Public Hall
16/10/00 Site meeting with Ivor Russell (CPRW)
16/10/00 TAG gain press coverage protesting at the inaccuracy of information and biased content of AAT's website
16/10/00 TAG members attend Cwmgors Public Meeting
21/10/00 Reply received from Peter Teague (MD of BBC World Wide) confirming that no permission was given to AAT to use the Teletubbie image
30/10/00 TAG joins CPRW
November 2000
01/11/00 Article about TAG published in CPRW's Magazine
09/11/00 South Wales Guardian - AAT to hold 10 focus groups in November and December - only 3 actually go ahead due to apathy
15/11/00 Emily Hinshelwood informs TAG that the 1 and 5 year project proposal are not available anymore as the content of the project has now changed since they were written - Emily Hinshelwood refuses to supply a copy of the original versions for TAG's reference.
16/11/00 Meeting With local Cllr Arwyn Woolcock
30/11/00 AAT described as a 'voluntary group'
December 2000
12/12/00 TAG members attend focus meeting for Tairgwaith Residents at AAT offices in GCG. Helen Davies (AAT) states that she hopes the dictaphone recording TAG make of the meeting (to prevent any further misquotes by AAT) will remain confidential.
15/12/00 TAG obtain a copy of the planning permission for the windspeed testing mast
January 2001
02/01/01 TAG Invite Emily Hinshelwood, Dan McCallum and any other AAT steering committee member to attend and speak at TAG's two public meetings (Jan 19th and 26th)
12/01/01 On site meeting with Peter Black (Lib Dem)
17/01/01 TAG interview with Radio Cymru
19/01/01 TAG Public Meeting at Tairgwaith - turnout is 150 (which exceeds turnout at any of AAT's 'public' meetings)
19/01/01 TAG interview with Real Radio about our concerns and the Public meeting
26/01/01 TAG supplied with interim accounts by AAT (see Accounts)
26/01/01 TAG Public Meeting at GCG Turnout is 120 - CPRW attend and give presentation on behalf of TAG Dan McCallum states that no TAG members will be allowed to join the Steering Committee
26/01/01 Dan McCallum states that Emily Hinshelwood has nothing to do with the AAT project which is why she hasn't attended any of the Public Meetings
February 2001
01/02/01 AAT are granted £300 from the Welsh Language Society
01/02/01 February letter in South Wales Guardian - Cambrian Engineering (based in Bangor) write to this South Wales paper to urge residents to vote for schemes like AAT's to keep them in business. Letter is published conveniently just before the referendum!
09/02/01 Site of windfarm is described as being situated on the 'mountain behind Tairgwaith' in an AAT press article
13/02/01 TAG attend AAT ' Open day ' in Cwmllynfell
14/02/01 TAG attend AAT ' Open day ' in Gwaun Cae Gurwen
15/02/01 TAG attend AAT ' Open day ' in Brynamman
27/02/01 Open day in Tairgwaith finally held due to pressure from Tairgwaith Residents
March 2001
02/03/01 Emily Hinshelwood (Co Sec/Director of AAT and Research Co-Ordinator) tells Gwenda Thomas to write into local newspaper asking 5 questions. TAG informed that Gwenda Thomas is not pleased with Emily Hinshelwood's attitude
16/03/01 TAG participates in BBC RAdio 4's Changing Places Programme (which turns out to be a half hour advert for AAT and Amman Valley enterprise)
20/03/01 Project is now referred to as the 'Rhiwfawr windfarm' in an AAT press release
23/03/01 Referendum closes (see results)
24/03/01 Local Press article: 9,000 residents were eligible to vote in the referendum (as opposed to the initial 13,500)
27/03/01 TAG interview with Radio Cymru
28/03/01 Press Article states that £80,000 will be needed to form an Environmental Impact Assessment and Planning Application.
30/03/01 (South Wales Guardian) AAT state that 50 Jobs will be created and that the electricity will supply 1,500 homes and provide a income of £192 - 383K per year
April 2001
03/04/01 Consultation begins
19/04/01 TAG Chair (Terry Howell) and AAT Chair (Ken Maddocks) take part in a live TV interview on S4C's Welsh Language local affairs programme Heno
26/04/01 TAG take part in live phone in with Sarah Dickinson on Radio Wales about windfarms - Dan McCallum of AAT also phones in
May 2001
25/05/01 TAG receive confirmation from NPTCBC that £5,000 has been granted to AAT for a 'Project worker' (Dan McCallum) to continue working on the project and to formulate a business plan
June 2001
26/06/01 TAG are advised by Adrian Howells of NPTCBC that AAT were awarded the maximum £5,000 of the total £25,000 pot available for the year for the whole of the NPTCBC area for 2001.
July 2001
01/07/01 Letter from AAT advising TAG that AAT expect to be able to file their account to companies house by August 2001. And fail to supply a list of registered members or confirm who the company secretary and Directors of AAT are. AAT advise TAG to contact Companies House
05/07/01 Dan McCallum in a press article, denies that the £5,000 was for him personally
22/07/01 Western Mail article in which Dan McCallum urges people to vote in the referendum as a high turnout will make it 'easier to get funding for the next stage'
25/07/01 South Wales Evening Post Article has Dan McCallum stating that the £5,000 grant funding received was not for him personally, but for AAT and that AAT never promised 50 Jobs
August 2001
03/08/01 TAG are interviewed by Joyce Loring of Sussex University as Part of her PhD research
21/08/01 TAG receive confirmation from the Charities Commission that the Charity was not allowed to loan the use of their number to another organisation and urges TAG to make a formal complaint.
23/08/01 Dan McCallum states that there will now be £1 MEMBERSHIP after over a year of using the word 'shares' incorrectly. AAT however still manage to get CPRW's name wrong - even in official documents!
26/08/01 Press article in the Independent refers to the area as 'Awel Aman Tawe' and get a host of other 'facts' hopelessly wrong. Article states that residents 'overwhelmingly’ wanted the windfarm and were taken in by AAT's 'charms'.
September 2001
29/09/01 TAG website continues to receive positive feedback and comments via email from general public and other interest groups. Most of the negative comments are posted on the website guest book with false email addresses
October 2001
13/10/01 TAG received interesting information regarding wind Turbines in Denmark.
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