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'No case for 25bn Severn Barrage'
2013-06-10 09:37:30| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Plans for a 25bn barrage in the Severn Estuary should not go ahead in their current form, a committee of MPs says.
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United Kingdom: Case for Severn barrage 'unproven'
2013-06-10 08:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The latest plan to build a barrage across the Severn to generate electricity has been severely criticised by a committee of MPs. Hafren Power had outlined a 25bn tidal scheme to generate up to 5% of the UK's electricity needs. But the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee said it could not recommend the plan. It said that on both economic and environmental grounds the case remained unproven. In 2010, the then Energy Secretary Chris Huhne pulled the plug on public efforts...
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Iran Peppers US Banks With Steady Barrage of Cybertraffic
2013-01-09 22:34:29| TechNewsWorld
Iran is to blame for a wave of distributed denial of service attacks that hit U.S. banks in the past few weeks, according to a report in The New York Times. The amount of traffic flooding American banks' sites was several times the volume Russia aimed at Estonia in a month-long online assault back in 2007, said James A. Lewis, senior fellow and director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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