Cheap smear uncalled for
J C Lewis (Post, January 24) asserted that I might be paid through my support for the Severn Barrage. That is totally false and he should not fling mud without checking his facts.
One of the reasons why I am using my influence as a local MP to support the barrage is that it could mean thousands of local, skilled jobs, including in Neath. South West Wales would get an historic jobs boost among the 50,000 workers needed to build the Severn Barrage — with skills centres to train local workers.
The caissons (gigantic concrete structures) would be assembled and then floated out from an enlarged Port Talbot docks, leaving the largest deep water port in North West Europe ideal for the new generation of large container ships and jobs with it. The barrage's 1,026 bi-directional turbines would also be manufactured in Port Talbot. As he must surely know, from reading the Evening Post if nothing else, I have been to the fore of protecting local hospital services and the future of Remploy, aswell as working hard for our two Neath Valley mines and setting up the Swansea Valley Miners' Appeal Fund. He should direct his attacks at government cuts which are having a devastating impact. Not resort to cheap smears against Labour MPs, AMs and councillors, who are doing their best to defend our communities.
Peter Hain MP
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by Neathboy234
Monday, February 11 2013, 4:05PM
“How do we know where the turbines will be manufactured, has a contract been put out to tender, have prices already been finalized. To me it all seems a bit too soon to talk about these things.
Can Mr Hain also give a cast iron guarantee that no fish will be killed whist traveling through these turbines and more importantly that no wildlife areas for birds will be destroyed. These are important questions which need answering.
BTW i agree with Mr Hain about the Tory cuts, but of course if things hadn't gone so badly in 2008 under a labour government then we might not be in this mess in the first place(And no not everyone is in the the same mess, Germany being a good example)”