Environmentalist Wackos Reject Green Energy

Great Britain had a plan to replace 5% of its total electrical generating capacity with carbon free tidal surge project. Environmentalists opposed. It was canceled and now they couldn't be happier.

The project called for harnessing the tidal energy of the Severn, Britain’s longest river, where the river meets the ocean. The Severn estuary has the second largest tidal range in the world (after Canada’s Bay of Fundy), making it seem a natural fit for tidal power. But the project stalled as objections were raised to the five leading proposals. Three options called for enormous dams, or barrages, to be built across the waterway, which environmental groups objected to. Those environmental groups, including Friends of the Earth and a birding group, greeted the news of the project’s cancellation with delight.