The US military’s proposal to build not one but twenty-seven radar towers, as high as multi-storey buildings, across the magical skylines of Newgale, Solva, Penycwm, Roch and far beyond in the reach of one of the UK’s most iconic national parks and key pieces of tourist infrastructure, is a proposal so outrageous, and so outstandingly out-of-touch with its submitted environment, that it simply beggars belief it has been proposed.

The array of radar dishes known as ‘DARC’, which would likely produce a power density over five times in excess of FM radio and TV antennae proven consistently at the higher wattages to nearly double the rates of cancers (especially leukaemia) in surrounding populations, constitutes a totally unacceptable public health risk that would likely on its own drive a number of long-standing residents permanently away from the area.

DARC radar would, if it ever saw the light of day, drive a wrecking ball through our tourism industry, our property values, and multiple unique animal and plant habitats, whose species (such as bats, Wales’s biggest skylark population and rare species like the red-billed chough) would have their habitats decimated by incredibly unsafe dish-concentrated vertical radiation, unnatural light, and an irrecoverable loss of space.

With the army set to leave the Brawdy base in 2028, we believe that instead of axing 400 jobs and throwing in a paltry few that would likely not even be for local people, Cawdor Barracks should simply, as it was last time the army left, instead be used to expand the rising star of Brawdy Enterprise Park—and create an exciting, forward-looking new Dewisland business culture, generating considerably more and better ultra-local jobs than any version of DARC could possibly offer.

DARC, as a US vanity project aimed at its entirely expansionist and needlessly escalatory space domain policy opposed by the vast majority of nations voting in the UN General Assembly, furthermore risks, if ever used in providing targeting against other nations’ satellites as it is intended to do, a potentially catastrophic space debris cascade scenario that scientists are warning could prohibit humankind’s re-entry into space for decades.

We, the people of Pembrokeshire, under the banner of PARC (Pembrokeshire Against the Radar Campaign), demand that the Secretary of State for Defence, the UK Government, Pembrokeshire County Council, the UK Ministry of Defence and the United States Space Force abandon, immediately and permanently, the plans for DARC radar in the outstanding area of national beauty and ecology of the Dewisland peninsula.

The people of Pembrokeshire stood in unprecedented unity against a near-identical radar array that was proposed for the Dewisland peninsula in 1991, and forced Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher herself to scrap it, relieving our local MP of his job in the process. When we as a county, a nation and a world stand together, we are unstoppable.

Join with us in the PARC Against DARC campaign. Let’s make DARC history!