South Wales Evening Post 21st December 2006

Environmental campaigners have welcomed the launch of a campaign to
raise public support for an energy-enerating tidal lagoon in Swansea
Bay. Backers of the scheme are hoping to establish a community
interest company to raise £24 million of the £80 million needed for
the project.

They say the lagoon could then be publicly owned and run for the
benefit of people living in the Swansea Bay area.

Now Swansea and Llanelli Green Party have given their support to the
idea, saying it is an environmentally friendly way of producing
electricity and a potential tourist attraction.

Party spokesman Rhodri Griffiths said: "We would be delighted to see
the project going ahead as a community-owned enterprise benefiting
local people, and sincerely hope the Swansea Bay Lagoon can be funded
in this way

"It is also worth considering that the proposed Swansea Bay barrage
could also have leisure and tourist applications and could also
create an entirely new sheltered marine environment which could
become a haven for wildfowl and fisheries.

"Indeed, as the first project of its kind, it would put Swansea on
the map and could become something of a tourist attraction."