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Wider Severn Estuary
Chairman’s Remarks
Hance D Smith
Cardiff University
Severn Estuary – Mor Hafren
• Links to Upper Severn Estuary and Bristol
Channel
• Rivers, catchments and the land
• The Atlantic, Celtic Sea and the
atmosphere
Area of Interest
Sea Use Matrix
Development
• The full range of development – making
sense of complexity – a matrix approach
• Ports
• Energy
• Conservation
• Coastal engineering: coast protection and
flood defence
Time – A Moving Picture
• Heritage
• Change – the environment
• Change – development
• The Future
Management
• Climate change and environment
• Decisions on development – ports, energy,
conservation and coastal engineering
• Technical: information, assessment and
professional inputs
• General: co-ordinating technical,
organisations and decision-making, policy
and strategic planning
Energy and Climate Change: An
‘Energy Estuary’
• Nuclear power stations
• Aberthaw
• Waste and wood chips
• Wind power
• Tidal power
• Severn contribution
The Presentations
• Severn Tidal Power – Juliet Austin, DECC
• Hinckley Point Nuclear Power – Hugh
Hutton, British Energy
• Severnside Energy Recovery Centre –
Stewart Hayward-Higham, SITA
• IMCORE Climate Change Project – Rhoda
Ballinger, Cardiff University