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Opposition to Severn barrage highlighted in report

17 June 2008

An environmental conglomerate has voiced its opposition to plans to build a barrage over the Severn estuary.

Groups including the RSPB, the WWF and the National Trust are contesting the proposed tidal barrage that would be used to generate renewable electricity to the surrounding area through a report commissioned from Frontier Economics.

The UK's longest river's 86,486 acres of wetlands would be threatened, the groups' report highlighted, while some five million tonnes of CO2 could be released into the atmosphere as a result of its production.

"This study demonstrates that the government should consider other ways of meeting our renewable targets which make better use of public money and are at less cost to the environment," said Tony Burton, strategy director at the National Trust.

Britain needs to generate 40 per cent of its electricity from green sources in order to meet its European Union renewables targets by 2020.

The UK government has pledged to generate 15 per cent of its energy from renewables by 2020.

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