What a nightmare vision is offered by the new tidal lagoon proposals on the Severn Estuary

Barrages and lagoons are very grim and environmentally destructive projects. The Severn Rivers Trust have calculated that power from the proposed Swansea lagoon will be the most expensive electricity in the world!! As usual in the UK, plans such as these are delivered by decision making systems in thrall to developers who want to make profits at the expense of the living environment. The Taff barrage being a very shocking example of that. In Canada / Bay of Fundy, where tidal power and its impacts have been studies for decades, Tidal Stream power is now the focus. Barrages and lagoons are the dinosaurs of tidal power technology. PLEASE do look at this website and move towards arguing for tidal stream power generation which will not involve destroying huge areas of an internationally important habitat.

http://acer.acadiau.ca/FERN.html.

Also tidal stream power could be one of THE green energies worldwide. There are development programmes in Scotland, Canada and elsewhere, if you are looking to develop the green economy that is where the potential is.

This is also added to our tidal films page

Bristol – highest tidal range in a populated area anywhere in the world http://t.co/BSdPdQqkSz @GeorgeFergusonx @AliRVowles @DesperateMen

— Bristol Loves Tides (@Tides_BLT) May 22, 2015

 

“High Tide Clean Up” Borth & Ynyslas Beach Clean https://t.co/0eWv3kvFKX

— Hydrocitizenship (@Hydrocitizens) April 16, 2015

I like this tweet and the idea of a high tide beach clean. I guess the incoming tide will pick up all stuff like plastic and there it is for gathering on the high water line!

Hi all,

After something of a hiatus, the Severn Estuary Art Atlas (SEAA) is up and running again.

This is a public google map showing a range of art related to the Severn Estuary. There is also a blog and the map and blog are inter-linked (although some links to be put in).

Here is a screen grab

The blog is https://severnestuaryartatlas.wordpress.com/

The map is below

The Tide Country of the Sunderbans (Bangladesh Indian Boarder)

I hope Amitav Ghosh will be ok with me reproducing two pages of the novel The Hungry Tide, Harper Collins 2004/5

It offers a brilliant description of the vast area of tidal mangrove forests which are the setting for the book.

“The tides reach as far as two hundred miles inland and everyday thousands of acres of forest disappear underwater, only to reemerge hours later.”

(Click on images and they should be readable)

It is also worth looking at Google Earth – there are some photos – and the complexity of the delta is revealed!!

I have added a few new books – See the page here

And a few new Tidal Artworks – See the page here

A trip to explore landscape character of the Severn Vale with CCRI, CPRE, UoG, and Sabrina Dreaming (Antony Lyons), and Nathan Huges (film maker)

Where, when and who:  Severn Vale Minibus Tour Itinerary 09012015

Thanks to Rob Berry of CCRI and Antony Lyons for organising.

Some pictures

May Hill from WWT Slimbridge

Looking over the estuary from WWT Slimbridge

Looking over the estuary from WWT Slimbridge

A few of WWT’s residents

THe Wye Invader  – Sharpness Docks

Navigation ight arcs on marine map – Avonmouth

Entrance – Sharpness Docks

Sabrina Dreaming boss!

Entrance – Sharpness Docks