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Severn Barrage

Beyond the drawing board

Would a resurgence of plans for a Severn Barrage change the rhetoric around steel, questions Gavin Harper.

6th April (27th February)
  • Politics and Policy

How Peter Hain contradicts himself

Gareth Clubb says a Severn barrage could become one of the most expensive renewable energy schemes in history

30th January (27th February)
  • Politics and Policy

New Severn Barrage would exploit two-way tides

Peter Hain makes the case for the biggest Welsh investment project in more than a generation

11th January (27th February)
  • Politics and Policy

Wales needs to re-evaluate Severnside concept

Mark Barry argues that the south west Britain economy needs some transformative new thinking

6th November (27th February)
  • Politics and Policy

Welsh infrastructure hopes for 2012

Mark Barry lists some major projects that could have a lasting impact on the Welsh economy

10th January (27th February)
  • Politics and Policy

Fourth term special 2: Our economic priorities stay the same

Brian Morgan believes imaginative policies exist to close Wales’ productivity gap

6th September (27th February)
  • Politics and Policy

Welsh economic prospects in 2011

John Ball says public sector dominance must come to an end if the Welsh economy is to flourish

17th January (27th February)
  • Politics and Policy

Spending Review 4: Sharing the pain to keep our competitive edge

Mike German says we should look to private sources for capital spending

7th January (27th February)
  • Politics and Policy

Ballooning cost of the barrage

Madoc Batcup says inaccurate cost-estimation has flung a wrecking ball at the development of tidal energy in the Severn Estuary

19th October (27th February)
  • Politics and Policy

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