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Energy: Severn Barrage

Answer

The members and roles of the consortium to manage the strategic environmental assessment of proposals for tidal power development in the Severn estuary are listed below:

Organisation	Key Roles
Parsons Brinckerhoff	Overall study management, project manager for options comparison, and technical delivery of engineering and terrestrial ecology/landscape.
Black and Veatch	Deputy study manager, project manager for SEA studies and technical delivery of energy capture and SEA.
ABPmer	Member of study senior management team, technical delivery of appropriate assessment and marine studies including geomorphology and hydraulics.
The Environment Council	Member of study senior management team and responsible for stakeholder engagement and public consultation activities.
Hartley Anderson	Co-ordination with BERR Offshore Energy SEA team and peer review.
George Corderoy	Construction costs
HR Wallingford	Geomorphology and hydraulics
APEM Ltd	Fish
British Trust for Ornothology	Birds
Wessex Archaeology	Archaeology
Risk and Policy Analysts	Decision-making framework
Osborne Clark	Legal assurance of SEA process
SQW Consulting	Socio-economic inputs
EMU Ltd	Call-off services
METOC Ltd	Call-off services
Environ UK Ltd	Call-off services

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

3792; 702 c56WA

Session

2007-08

Subjects

Contracts Environment protection Tidal power River Severn

Link

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