Severn Barrage Would Ruin Business ; Government Appointed Experts Have Warned That a Barrage Built to Harvest the Tidal Power of the Bristol Channel Could Cost the Region Hundreds of Millions of Pounds in Lost Business and Lead to Thousands of Job Losses.

Evening Post (Bristol, UK) › December 21, 2008

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Government appointed experts have warned that a barrage built to harvest the tidal power of the Bristol Channel could cost the region hundreds of millions of pounds in lost business and lead to thousands of job losses.

Feasibility studies are being carried out into ten different schemes designed to harness the energy from the estuary.

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Severn Barrage Would Ruin Business ; Government Appointed Experts Have Warned That a Barrage Built to Harvest the Tidal Power of the Bristol Channel Could Cost the Region Hundreds of Millions of Pounds in Lost Business and Lead to Thousands of Job Losses.

According to opponents the consultants in charge of the study into the economic impact of the barrage have warned that a barrage from Weston-super-Mare to South Wales would cripple th...

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