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Cllr Ann Davies CARMARTHENSHIRE County Council has welcomed a new member to its Executive Board. Cllr Ann Davies has been named Executive Board Member for Communities and Rural Affairs, following the departure of Cllr Cefin Campbell who has been elected Member of the Senedd for the Mid and West Wales region. Cllr Davies, a member of the Plaid Cymru group, has served Carmarthenshire County Council as a councillor for Llanddarog ward since 2017. In that time she has sat on the council’s licensing committee, communities scrutiny committee and represented Carmarthenshire on the Community Health Council. Her new position will see her carrying out Executive Board functions on behalf of the council on matters relating to Communities and Rural Affairs - this includes a lead role on climate change, equalities, community safety, third sector partnerships, wellbeing and tackling poverty, as well as advocating for the needs of rural Carmarthenshire.
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But the authority’s carbon footprint in four key areas is reducing overall. The council has a target of reaching “net zero” in carbon emissions by 2030 – and to do that needs to be able to offset emissions which it can’t eliminate, like those associated with heating council buildings and schools. One way of offsetting is to commission solar and wind projects on council-owned land, but connecting them to the grid poses problems because grid capacity in Mid Wales is said to be limited. Referring to this offsetting option at an executive board meeting, Cllr Cefin Campbell said: “It is frustrating at the moment that we can’t do that.”