Almost 9,000 letters and e-postcards in support of the proposed Scarweather Sands windfarm in Swansea Bay have been sent to the Welsh Assembly ahead of the public inquiry into the development.
2,874 letters and 5,727 e-postcards have flooded in from supporters of clean, green renewable energy in South Wales. The letters have now all been submitted to the inquiry, while the number of e-postcards sent is growing by around 20 a day.
The sheer amount of mail is especially significant given the usual reluctance of people to write in support of a development, which means that such correspondence is often weighted heavier than letters against such proposals.
The inquiry, which is due to start on 4 November, will be taking place in Port Talbot and is expected to take about four weeks before passing on recommendations to the Welsh Assembly.
The e-postcards were also sent to the Welsh Tourist Authority, and featured pictures of seaside resorts that have been devastated by the effects of global warming - a threat that the Scarweather Sands windfarm will help to combat.
Natasha Richards from Greenpeace, who lives locally, said: "The thousands of letters and e-postcards prove that there is a huge amount of support for this windfarm and the clean, green energy that it will produce."
"We urgently need to move away from dirty forms of energy to combat the very real threat of climate change - and the Scarweather windfarm is a giant leap in the right direction."
The proposed windfarm will lie three miles off the coast of Porthcawl, and will produce enough electricity to supply 80,000 homes - equivalent to a town the size of Swansea.
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Greenpeace is an independent campaigning group that does not stand to benefit financially from the proposed windfarm.
