Western Mail Peter Hain has issued a withering attack on the Government for ignoring the benefits of a Severn Barrage – admitting the project is effectively dead in the water. Mr Hain, who resigned from Labour’s Shadow Cabinet last year to campaign for the Barrage, blamed the UK Government for scuppering a project that would have provided 5% of the UK’s electricity needs.
No hope of £25bn Severn Barrage being built
No hope of £25bn Severn Barrage being built
No hope of £25bn Severn Barrage being built
Western Mail Peter Hain has issued a withering attack on the Government for ignoring the benefits of a Severn Barrage – admitting the project is effectively dead in the water. Mr Hain, who resigned from Labour’s Shadow Cabinet last year to campaign for the Barrage, blamed the UK Government for scuppering a project that would have provided 5% of the UK’s electricity needs.