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Severn Lake™ News
The latest news on The Severn Lake™ project, which covers
the development of the causeway, the lake and accompanying services:
March 2008: The Severn Lake
Co. is wading through mega bureaucracy and has got stuck. To move
forward, the Founder has written an 'open letter' to Mr. Hutton
MP at BERR (the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory
Reform):
Dear Mr. Hutton,
Re: The Severn Lake Project
I am proposing to seek permission to build an Energy Causeway
with the maximum power potential of 18,000 m.watts across the
River Severn. My 'whole' scheme, with patents, design rights,
construction detail and alternative habitat innovation is not
in the public domain.
The Sustainable Development Council is commencing a two year
Feasibility Study, that therefore would be without my scheme on
board, i.e. incomplete.
In discussions with the SDC, it is clear that their Feasibility
Study will recommend, like the October 1st report, a Government
led and Government funded barrage, i.e. a nationalised energy
supplier. This flies in the face of the Government's own energy
review 2006, which recommends private sector control and funding.
Can you confirm:-
a. if the Government has a hidden agenda to be a nationalised
electricity supplier, and
b. can the Government re-affirm its support for the recommendations
of its own energy review and its rewewable energy supply targets
for 2020?
You will find full details of our company and an open copy
of this letter on our website.
Yours etc.
Hot off the press today (23/6/08):
1. Peter Hain's office is trying to get the Department of Business
and Enterprise, Mr John Hutton, to answer the above letter (some
three months). It must cause Mr Hain, a keen advocate of energy
from the Severn, some considerable embarassment that the Department
for Business, supporting renewable energy, cannot reply definitively
to such a straightforward letter.
2. Await an announcement by the Conservative Party on Thursday
26th June re: renewable energy.
3. Will the Planning Bill help this project?
Contact The Severn Lake™
Team:
Contact us here, although we
cannot possibly respond to all feedback, we will read every comment
and will take your points to our planning team for consideration.
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