Brecon Beacons to be renamed over links to climate change
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
No, it’s not April 1st:
The Brecon Beacons are to be renamed over concerns that the word “beacon” is out of step with the fight against climate change.
The national park will now be officially referred to as the “Bannau Brycheiniog” National Park, granting the landscape a Welsh name, and steering clear of any associations with historical signal fires.
Officials said the symbol of a flaming beacon emitting carbon “does not fit with the ethos” of the national park as an eco-friendly organisation.
However, on Sunday night, a senior Conservative source attacked the decision as “pure virtue signalling” that would “do nothing to actually help the environment”.
Catherine Mealing-Jones, the chief executive of Brecon Beacons National Park, said: “We’re an environmental organisation. We’re trying to cut carbon and push to net zero. So, having a carbon burning beacon just isn’t a good look.
“We’ve had awful wildfires over the last few years. So anything that kind of promotes that idea that fire in the landscape is a good thing made us feel that it probably wasn’t the look we’re going for.”
The name change is in “direct response to the climate and biodiversity emergency”, and is part of a broader new vision for the park that includes onshore wind turbines and reduced sheep numbers. The park aims to reach net zero in greenhouse gas emissions by 2035.
The linguistic reasoning behind the name change has sparked fears in Westminster that a precedent may be set for changing names if they happen to inflame the sensitivities of environmentalists.
‘Is it April Fools day?’
Sir Robert Goodwill, the Tory chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs committee, told The Telegraph: “Next thing they’ll be renaming Burns’ Night.”
He said that place names like “Coalville” or “Blackburn” might be equally at risk under the logic of avoiding links to carbon-emissions, adding: “I have to say that I have never made the association between the Beacons and fire.
“I think it is more important to retain historical names as part of our heritage. I had to recheck my diary when I heard this ludicrous suggestion just to make sure it wasn’t April Fools’ day.”
There is no definitive historical evidence of warning beacons ever being lit on the peaks.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/17/brecon-beacons-net-zero-renamed-climate-change/
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
North Yorkshire Moors national park to be renamed “T’hills National Park” due to the reference to Moors being racist and recalling the Muslim Moors being thrown out of Spain by the white Christian supremacists.
…..after they were invaded by……?
Mjr., excellent : I could not not better when it comes to mocking the trivia of these proposals.. Listening to this being covered by the BBC this am leaves one despairing of what some will do to occupy their time.
On Ilkley Moor baht ‘at.
They’re courting Welsh Nationalists and Greens. I expect they will try to impose a 20mph speedlimit throughout the area too. They are hoping for money to plant 1 million trees and other assorted green projects.
Meanwhile ordinary folk will continue to refer to them as the Brecon Beacons, just as most refer to the Sugar Loaf rather than Pen y Fan. Perhaps Ordnance Survey will charge double for maps overprinted in Welsh.
“They are hoping for money to plant 1 million trees and other assorted green projects.”
Meanwhile, to make “Green” electricity, Drax is government subsidised to the tune of close on £1 Billion per annum for burning 17 million trees which are felled, made into pellets, dried and shipped across the Atlantic.
You know it makes sense!
It doesn’t matter what some stupid woke chief executive pronounces. All we have to do is keep calling them the Brecon Beacons regardless of what they decree. One of the easier ways to combat the green blob.
100%.
Totally agree!😩😂
Do you notice that most of these woke CEO’s are woman ( the ones with ovaries)?
Can you be sure they are not part of Starmer’s 0.1%. At first glance I thought the moron behind the Bud Lite disaster was.
The lunatics are truly in charge of the Asylum.
Madness this way lies…
Thought so; the phrase “Public Finance” and words “Agency” and “Authority” appear in this …..person’s LinkedIn profile; her – or is that “their” – academic and business experience has not enabled an exposure to the fact that CO2 is not a pollutant, that its very existence confirms the continued existence of alll. life on Earth, and enables pollution to emanate from her/their mouths in the form of unadulterated rubbish ( shame it cannot be recycled) – all paid for by the taxpayer to whom accountability is non existent, but it pays for a “journey”…what utter blx.
“So, having a carbon burning beacon just isn’t a good look.”
Without realising, she’s maybe come up with a good idea for NZ: Furnaces that could burn CO2!
This is overtly racist. No English person is going to be able to pronounce the new name.
That very thought struck me this morning as it was mangled on the Radio .
Just keep calling it the old name ..
My thoughts exactly. Did they really think it would be good for tourism changing the name, but as Orde Solomons says we will carry on calling them the Brecon Beacons. I really do despair!
As someone in one of the national papers commented – will the Welsh Government now change the Wales flag so it doesn’t have a dragon on it? After all we can’t have a fire breathing dragon as the national symbol of Wales – think of all the CO2.
CO2 doesn’t burn so the Dragon must be ingesting food in the back end and expelling methane at the front.
Worse than the name change is the idea of getting rid of sheep and installing wind turbines to “Increase biodiversity”. More likely to destroy the whole nature of the area.
Pure deflection from the backward D class politicians in Wales to try to con the great people of Wales not see the complete pot mess they are making of the country. I do not know which is greater, their wilful asininity or their desperation? This is just a virtue signalling excuse to rename them. They make the wee krankie in Scotland look like a skilled politician!
Will the Welsh government be apologising for the environmental and atmospheric devastation caused by the mining and burning of coal over the centuries? Reparations to be paid?
So, replace the (non existent!) carboniferous Beacon with Solar PV version.
Of course we’ll have to hope that the marauding invaders won’t arrive at night!
“… part of a broader new vision for the park that includes onshore wind turbines and reduced sheep numbers.”
Fewer sheep = more long grass/shrubs = more fuel for wildfires. That’ll work.
To what shall we rename the Great Fire of London?
What must we now call Crematoria, until of course next year when we force them to close as a major pollution source of CO2?
I am beginning to become concerned about candles and how their evocation of flames may be distressing green sensitivities?
A beacon is a signal, which doesn’t have to mean a fire. These people are just looking for an excuse to put a made-up Welsh name on their signage.
But so what if it was a reference to a fire – which would, in those times, inform the population of some kind of impending danger as a prearranged signal; what other means of fast communication were there? The allusion by this idiot CEO ( why a National Park needs a CEO is beyond me) to a woke ideology is illuminating to all those not blinded; if she/they were to use “beacons” as the first introduction of the modern communications era, that would be a massive stretch but a damn sight more relevant?
I bet Lord of the Rings, Return of The King is not on her/their Favourite Films Of All Time…
How does she/they regard the naming of the structure attributed to Offa?
You mean the ‘dyke’?
“You might say that, I could not possibly comment” (with acknowledgments…)
The Sugar Loaf was one of the locations for beacons for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee (as was Snowdon). I suspect there is republican sentiment in saying that fire beacons are against climate change policies, as they have done. There are plans to light beacons for the coronation.
Well we poor devils who live in Wales (a country where most people don’t actually speak Welsh – or want to) have to put up with this nonsense on a daily basis. The amount of money wasted is phenomenal , but they don’t care. Hell England is paying for it anyway. Cut the money tap off to Wales and Scotland now and let’s see how they get on.
I know its only from Wikipedia but it sound right.
“Over time, the name Brecknock Beacons came to be used for a wider area and Brecknock (an anglicised from of Brycheiniog) was replaced by Brecon (another derivative of Brycheiniog).[4] There is no specific evidence that the Brecon Beacons were named after the ancient practice of lighting signal fires (beacons) to warn of attacks by invaders.”
I’ve often thought that there are too many people with too much time on their hands especially those working, occupying space would be more accurate, in Government backed agencies. They feel that they have to do something to make themselves relevant.
I live not far from Coalville. It was called that for a reason, of course. If you buy a house round here you have to make sure no-one has tunnelled under it at some point. There are worse places, but nowadays, Benefitham or Dumpton might be more appropriate.
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”
Renaming the Beacons is part of the cultural Marxists relentless program to incrementally erase your history. With no history, you have no country. National Parks attacks your nation. It is treason writ small.
What right does the National Park have to rename a feature like the Brecon Beacons? Have they consulted the locals? Very unlikely.
They are changing the name for ecological reasons, as they want to disassociate themselves from the dreadful carbon word ‘beacon’…
by changing it to ‘Bannau’ … (which means beacon in Welsh).
Who knew you could ‘win the fight against climate’ by a simple change in name; Presumably CO2 never learned welsh …
just like Catherine Mealing-Jones (ex Director of Growth at the UK Space Agency, that’s worked out well !!!). ‘ hen fag ffycin dwp’
Cael diwrnod braf !
This my help you –
https://translatiz.com/translation/welsh-to-english
Don’t think Bannau means beacon actually. Peaks
https://geiriadur.bangor.ac.uk/#Bannau
Isn’t it a tradition for our national beacons to be lit after a coronation?
She says ‘they are an environ’mental’ organisation’, interestingly National Parks were set up for the public to enjoy.
‘Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.’ – Conquest
So much easier than actually running the place better or more cheaply.
For the reassurance of those here getting angry at the vilification of the word ‘Beacons’ – it’s got nothing to do with that. It’s just a shallow excuse to rename it with a Cymraeg name, which will not be best liked in most of South Wales. So they’ve justified it with climate change – which cannot/must not be questioned. The media don’t want to be filthy deniers, so they won’t. Politics is especially deceitful in Wales.
They’ve renamed Snowdon something or other in Cymraeg, but that’s not a problem in the North.
What’s Welsh for “leaker”?
“Whistleblower” to me.
In Cardiff, where they *all* work for the Public Sector and the Extended Public Sector, or in Wales? Cardiff being a piece of England dumped into Wales and trying desperately, desperately hard to be Welsh, but still being inescapably English.
What’s Welsh for “leaker”?
gollyngwr
I think “G”‘s witty suggestion is favourite; the first 5 letters of the welsh for leaker could put one in a spot of bother with plod if “The White Hart” Essex is anything to go by….mind you, as its welsh “you’re safe”….what a blx world we now inhabit.
The reverse translation comes up with “loser”. Pronounciation is “Gothum goo”.
The original Welsh name apparently means” The peaks of Brychan’s kingdom ” so nothing to do with burning stuff. The worst enemy of the Welsh is the Welsh; see the dismal failure of the Welsh glorious leaders to support Welsh businesses by substantially improving parts of the Welsh road network.
Banneau brysteniog? Trips off the tongue nicely.
Think I’ll stick with Brecon Beacons; Like all my maps and road atlases used on my way to Snowdon, sorry Yr Wydfa.