Reacting to the council's decision on Thursday evening, local farmer Glyn Morgan, chairman of action group Save Our Common MountainEnvironment (Socme), told BBC Radio Wales the energy firm's plan was "total destruction of an environment".
The temples were carefully oriented to face the original direction, and the landscape of their original environment was re-created on and around the concrete, dome-shaped mountain.
Broad hilltops and mountain peaks surround the Sylvania campus where PCC student Jessica Hutchins says there is not enough talk about the environment from presidential hopefuls.
The fixtures throughout the Lodge are entirely done by Rocky Mountain Hardware--understated sand-cast bronze with a natural coating that allows the metal to blend into its environment--and in the mercifully small and hidden salon (a necessary evil in all spas) for sanitary reasons, the pedicure areas use copper basins and no jets.