It would be “utter madness” for the government to withdraw its support at this late stage from a £1bn revolutionary tidal energy scheme at Swansea Bay, Lib Dem leader Tim Farron will tell his party’s spring conference in Cardiff on Saturday. The planned project, awaiting a funding decision from the Department of Energy and Climate Change, would provide hundreds of jobs and much-needed low carbon power for over a century, he argues.
Farron spoke out amid mounting speculation that ministers are growing cold on the tidal lagoon project, which was included in the Conservative manifesto but has been delayed by tortuous negotiations on subsidies.
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