Campaigns

Action on Burry Inlet and Flooding

Nia raising awareness of flooding problems in Kidwelly

Nia has taken the following actions to help solve the pollution of the Burry Inlet and flooding in the Llanelli area:

• Set up the Llanelli Flooding Forum
• Secured Welsh Water investment including new pumping equiptment at Cambrian Place to protect homes in South Llanelli from flooding threat.
• Worked with the Environment Agency to tackle river flooding in Pwll, Dafen and Llangennech.
• Kept pressure up on the Welsh Assembly to make Welsh Water adopt private sewers.
• Lobbie EU, national and local officials to sort out our sewerage and flooding problems.
• Worked on Flood and Water Managment Bill to ensure coincil and agencies collaborate to assess flooding risk when planning new developments.
• Worked on the Marine Bill to help protect the future of the Burry Inlet and its unique shellfish industry.

Opposing Opencast

In Railway Terrace, Pontyberem, just a few yards away from the proposed opencast

Nia started fighting opencast plans for Pentremawr by:

• Calling a public meeting so that people in Pontyberem and Ponthenri could question the developers face to face.
• Leading volunteers door-to-door to alert residents to the plans.
• Setting up of an action committee to produce detailed objections.
• Presenting a petition to the council.
• Lobbying councillors to stop the development by refusing to let the developers go over council-owned land.

Nia said, “The developers could not even guarantee any jobs for local people – just flith, noise, dusr and heavy lorries – all to extract less coal than Aberthaw power station uses in two months.”