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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Bethan McKernan Wales correspondent

Welsh farmers launch landmark claim against ‘intimidating’ pylon firm

Crowd of protesters with signs such as Stop Bute Energy
People protesting in Cardiff in February against Bute Energy, which owns Green Gen Cymru. Photograph: Joann Randles/Hive Insider

A group of 500 Welsh farmers have brought a landmark legal claim to the high court over the alleged conduct of a green energy developer planning to build electricity pylon routes across their land.

The court will hear allegations that Green Gen Cymru “unlawfully sought entry to private land, intimidated landowners, and showed disregard for biosecurity and basic rights”, as well as examine laws that force landowners to sell property to utility companies, in a hearing on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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