Peter
Hain
–
erstwhile
Shadow
Secretary
of
State
for
Wales,
and
previously
a
senior
minister
for
UK
leaders
Tony
Blair
and
Gordon
Brown
–
threw
his
weight
behind
the
Severn
Barrage,
a
project
being
touted
by
the
Corlan
Hafren
consortium
which
looked
to
have
hit
the
rocks
when
the
UK
government
withdrew
its
backing.
Corlan
Hafren,
whose
backers
include
the
engineering
group
Arup,
is
known
to
have
been
in
discussions
with
the
Department
of
Energy
and
Climate
Change
(DECC)
late
last
year.
A
DECC
spokesman
refuses
to
tell
Recharge…
