Severn barrage

[nightshade]

Whatever the cost we will take the moral highground regarding Carbon saving
we will kill off wildlife left right and centre while the largest countries on the planet
do nothing, there is no justice

[zharca]

What I'm seeing with this isn't an environmentally driven project, but some fairly big interested parties who see massive, long-term construction projects and then many billions of government (our) money to support something that will never make commercial sense.

[PMG]

Absolute disaster as would the same thing be on the Ribble or Morecambe Bay, the Wash etc and for all the same reasons. Have signed the petition. I wish the government were honest about these kind of things and admit they haven't a clue about what to do for the best - basically Pandoras Box is open and things are out of control and set to get worse cos foolish people are in charge - and some of us put them there (not me - I don't vote and I'd have everyone not vote - then maybe we could have a different way of running the country . . .) Sorry can hear a rant coming on - must go away and do something else - cos this subject gets my goat . . .

Pauline

[kshotton45]

I hope it doesn't get the go ahead ( I think it's about 14 years away ). But there's a lot of money involved and wildlife so often takes a back seat to 'progress'.
With our governments record of underestimation I wonder what the final bill might be. They've estimated £14 Bn, so £200 Bn would be a fair guess!

The planned barrage would be some ten miles long, that's a hell of a lot of nature to be interfering with. Surely we can make savings of 3% on our energy needs, and draw another 3% from wave, wind, and solar power? This barrage seems like taking a sledge hammer to crack a nut. It's only going to produce power for about 5 hours a day.


Keith.