(Modern Power Systems, December 2007, pp. 41-42)
Building the Severn barrage would significantly advance the UK’s fossil dependency ambitions, as well as help to maintain its position as one of the leaders in the tidal race, but at a cost that opponents say is too great to pay - the displacement of many intertidal species and even the destruction of the Severn bore, a much loved local phenomenon. Would the return justify such an enormous investment and such a loss?
