'Excessive' Costs Force Government to Scrap Pounds 30 Million Barrage

Gloucestershire Echo, The › October 20, 2010

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AXING Pounds 30 billion plans to build a barrage across the Severn estuary has drawn a mixed reaction in Gloucestershire.

The Government ruled out the scheme yesterday claiming the cost of constructing the ten-mile barrier between Cardiff and Weston- super-Mare would be "excessive". If built, its hydroelectric turbines could have generated five per cent of the UK's energy requirements.

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'Excessive' Costs Force Government to Scrap Pounds 30 Million Barrage

Gloucestershire County Council chief executive ...

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