English: The Cabinet Secretary will know very well that I oppose the whole thrust of the Government's energy policy as an exercise in futility, because even if she were to succeed in all her objectives, what we gain in Wales is massively swamped by what's happening in the rest of the world. Meanwhile, the price of this policy is being paid for by the electricity consumers and taxpayers in Wales, and we've just heard of the effects that will be felt in the countryside of these windfarms - these excrescences that are being dotted around all over the hills of Wales. I drove down from Aberdyfi through mid Wales at the weekend and almost everywhere on the skyline you see these eyesores. In addition to the points, which I totally agree with, that have been raised already by Andrew R.T. Davies and Darren Millar, I would like to ask why it is that the Hendy windfarm has been treated in a different way from that at Rhoscrowther in Pembrokeshire, where the same planning considerations arose. That was only five turbines; Hendy is seven. Rhoscrowther was turned down on the basis of its visual impact and the effect on the landscape. At Llandegley Rocks near the Hendy windfarm, you've got unspoilt landscape, scheduled ancient monuments, internationally important palaeontology of the Llandegley Rocks, it's the source of the River Edw, there's a huge starling roost there - 2,000 to 3,000 starlings, a conservation species - which the developers plan to fell, and there are listed buildings very close to the site. I agree entirely with the point that Darren Millar made that the effect upon the landscape - and let's not forget that one of the principal assets for mid Wales is its tourist potential - is wholly disproportionate to the gain in terms of the Government's energy policy. It's a relatively small project, and looking at this in a global context, it is totally insignificant. And I can't understand, therefore, why the Cabinet Secretary has decided to allow this to go ahead, when it can be of no gain practically to anybody other than the developers themselves, and I don't think that that is a sensible basis upon which Governments should take these decisions. But I want to address now the wider considerations that the Government's energy policy brings up. Now, it would disappoint the Cabinet Secretary if I didn't mention China in this speech. As she constantly points out to me, this is something that I always raise and she's absolutely right, because I want to make this point again: China has 993 GW of capacity for generating electricity, and they have currently under construction another 259 GW of coal-fired power stations, principally. That's a 25 per cent increase on their current capacity; that is six times the entire generating capacity of the United Kingdom. If we close down the entire United Kingdom economy, of course we would cut our carbon emissions to a very small percentage, but China would, in the course of however long these new power stations take to build - five to 10 years - have made up for that reduction by six times. So, anything that we do in Wales that is responsible for only a minute fraction of 1 per cent of global emissions will be completely irrelevant in the debate on global warming. I'd like to read from a BBC article on its website only in September: 'Building work has restarted at hundreds of Chinese coal-fired power stations, according to an analysis of satellite imagery259 gigawatts of new capacity are under development'. So, this is something that has achieved considerable publicity, and I think it wholly undermines the whole argument for renewables at vast subsidies that are paid for by ordinary people, and Wales is the poorest part of the United Kingdom. There are 291,000 households in fuel poverty - the Government's own figures - that's 23 per cent of the households in Wales. People can't afford to pay these increases. The Office for Budget Responsibility last spring revealed in its economic and fiscal outlook that environmental levies this year will cost, throughout the United Kingdom, £11.3 billion. That's a rise of £2 billion over the last financial year. It goes on to say that the increase of £2 billion represents a rise in average electricity bills of about 5 per cent, so that's twice the rate of inflation. This is planned to go on and on and on each year for the foreseeable future until in 2030 it's estimated that at least a third of all electricity bills will be accounted for by environmental levies. So, the Government's policy is an exercise in futility, and the people who are really paying the price are those at the bottom of the income scale, whom I would have thought the Labour Party would have had an interest in helping rather than making their lives more difficult.
Welsh: Bydd Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet yn gwybod yn iawn fy mod i'n gwrthwynebu holl fyrdwn polisi ynni'r Llywodraeth gan ei fod yn ymdrech ofer, oherwydd hyd yn oed petai hi'n llwyddo yn ei holl amcanion, mae'r hyn yr ydym ni yng Nghymru yn ei ennill yn cael ei lethu gan yr hyn sy'n digwydd yng ngweddill y byd. Yn y cyfamser, mae pris y polisi hwn yn cael ei dalu gan ddefnyddwyr trydan a threthdalwyr yng Nghymru, ac rydym ni newydd glywed am yr effeithiau y bydd y ffermydd gwynt hyn yn eu cael yng nghefn gwlad - gordyfiannau sy'n cael eu gwasgaru dros fryniau Cymru. Gyrrais i lawr o Aberdyfi drwy'r canolbarth dros y Sul, a bron ym mhob man ar y gorwel mae'r pethau hyll hyn i'w gweld. Yn ychwanegol at y pwyntiau, yr wyf yn cytuno'n llwyr â nhw, a godwyd eisoes gan Darren Millar ac Andrew R.T. Davies, fe hoffwn i ofyn pam y cafodd fferm wynt Hendy ei thrin yn wahanol i'r un yn Rhoscrowdder yn sir Benfro, lle cododd yr un ystyriaethau cynllunio. Dim ond pum tyrbin oedd yn hon; saith yn Hendy. Cafodd Rhoscrowdder ei gwrthod ar sail ei heffaith weledol a'r effaith ar y dirwedd. Yng Nghreigiau Llandeglau ger fferm wynt Hendy, mae gennych chi dirwedd heb ei difetha, henebion rhestredig, paleontoleg ryngwladol bwysig Creigiau Llandeglau a tharddle afon Edw. Mae clwyd enfawr yno - 2,000 i 3,000 o ddrudwyod, sef rhywogaeth gadwraeth - y mae'r datblygwyr yn cynllunio i'w thynnu i lawr, a cheir adeiladau rhestredig yn agos iawn at y safle. Rwy'n cytuno'n llwyr â'r pwynt a wnaeth Darren Millar sef bod yr effaith ar y dirwedd - a gadewch inni beidio ag anghofio mai un o brif asedau'r canolbarth yw ei photensial o ran twristiaeth - yn gwbl anghymesur i'r hyn gaiff ei ennill o ran polisi ynni'r Llywodraeth. Mae'n brosiect cymharol fach, ac wrth edrych ar hwn mewn cyd-destun byd-eang, mae'n gwbl ddibwys. Ac nid wyf yn deall, felly, pam mae Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet wedi penderfynu gadael i hwn fynd rhagddo, pan nad all fod o unrhyw fantais ymarferol i neb heblaw'r datblygwyr eu hunain, ac nid wyf yn credu bod hynny'n sail synhwyrol ar gyfer penderfyniadau llywodraethau. Ond rwyf i eisiau ymdrin yn awr â'r ystyriaethau ehangach y mae polisi ynni'r Llywodraeth yn eu codi. Fe fyddai Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet yn cael ei siomi pe na fyddwn yn sôn am Tsieina yn yr araith hon. Mae hi'n fy atgoffa'n gyson fod hyn yn rhywbeth yr wyf yn ei godi o hyd ac mae hi'n hollol iawn, oherwydd rwyf am wneud y pwynt hwn eto: Mae gan Tsieina gapasiti o 993 GW i gynhyrchu trydan, ac mae ganddyn nhw ar hyn o bryd 259 GW o orsafoedd pŵer glo yn bennaf yn cael eu hadeiladu. Mae hynny'n gynnydd o 25 y cant ar y capasiti presennol; mae hynny chwe gwaith capasiti cynhyrchu cyfan y Deyrnas Unedig. Pe byddem ni'n cau economi'r Deyrnas Unedig gyfan i lawr, wrth gwrs fe fyddem ni'n torri ein hallyriadau carbon lawr i ganran fechan iawn, ond byddai Tsieina, yn ystod cyfnod adeiladu'r gorsafoedd pŵer newydd hyn, sef - pump i 10 mlynedd - wedi gwneud yn iawn am y gostyngiad hwnnw chwe gwaith drosodd. Felly, mae unrhyw beth a wnawn ni yng Nghymru sy'n gyfrifol am ddim ond rhan fach iawn o 1 y cant o'r allyriadau byd-eang, yn gwbl amherthnasol yn y ddadl ar gynhesu byd-eang. Fe hoffwn i ddarllen rhan o erthygl ar wefan y BBC ym mis Medi: Mae gwaith adeiladu wedi ailgychwyn ar gannoedd o orsafoedd pŵer glo yn Tsieina, yn ôl dadansoddiad o ddelweddau lloeren 259 gigawat o gapasiti newydd yn cael eu datblygu. Felly, mae hyn yn rhywbeth sydd wedi ennyn llawer o gyhoeddusrwydd, ac rwy'n credu ei fod yn tanseilio'n gyfan gwbl yr holl ddadl dros ynni adnewyddadwy drwy gymorthdaliadau helaeth y telir amdanyn nhw gan bobl gyffredin, a Chymru yw rhan dlotaf y Deyrnas Unedig. Ceir 291,000 o aelwydydd yn dioddef tlodi tanwydd - ffigurau'r Llywodraeth ei hun - dyna 23 y cant o aelwydydd Cymru. Ni all pobl fforddio talu'r codiadau hyn. Datgelodd y Swyddfa Cyfrifoldeb Cyllidebol y gwanwyn diwethaf, yn ei rhagolygon economaidd a chyllidol, y bydd ardollau amgylcheddol eleni yn costio, ledled y Deyrnas Unedig, £11.3 biliwn. Mae hynny'n gynnydd o £2 biliwn dros y flwyddyn ariannol ddiwethaf. Aiff ymlaen i ddweud bod y cynnydd o £2 biliwn yn cynrychioli cynnydd mewn biliau trydan o tua 5 y cant ar gyfartaledd, felly mae hynny ddwywaith cyfradd chwyddiant. Bwriedir i hyn fynd ymlaen ac ymlaen ac ymlaen bob blwyddyn hyd y gellir rhagweld tan y flwyddyn 2030 pryd yr amcangyfrifir y bydd o leiaf traean o holl filiau trydan yn cael eu talu drwy ardollau amgylcheddol. Felly, gwaith ofer yw polisi'r Llywodraeth, a'r bobl sydd mewn gwirionedd yn talu'r pris yw'r rhai ar waelod y raddfa incwm, y rhai a dybiwn i y byddai'r Blaid Lafur eisiau eu helpu yn hytrach na gwneud eu bywydau yn fwy anodd.