UK Cancels Massive Tidal Energy Project That Could Have Powered All of Wales

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By Eliza Strickland
Oct 20, 2010 3:19 AMNov 19, 2019 10:50 PM
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The British government announced yesterday that it's scrapping a huge and controversial tidal power project that would have cost up to $48 billion to build, and could have provided clean energy for up to 5 percent of the United Kingdom. It was just too expensive, the government said.

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