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Draft National Policy Statement for Fossil Fuel Electricity Generating Infrastructure (EN-2)

Is not one problem of the Government's approach to the Severn tidal barrage that they are concentrating their efforts on an assessment of the set of selected projects, rather than doing what Hermann Bondi did so thoroughly and efficiently a quarter of a century ago, which was to look first at the basic cost/benefit analysis in order to make sure that the fundamentals of the project were right, whichever project was selected? It is by no means clear that the work that was done so well at the time has been repeated on this occasion. I am sure that it will need to be.