Letter: Use Shrewsbury's weir to generate electricity

Letter: I recently received a very encouraging letter from All Rivers Hydro Limited, a company in Shrewsbury that I believe has approached the council with regards to leasing land at the Castlefields weir site.

Their intention is to use the Severn in order to generate energy, not only producing a reasonable return to local investors, but also the potential saving of 1000 tonnes a year of CO2 emissions.

The new government Coalition agreement states: "We will encourage community-owned renewable energy schemes where local people benefit from the power produced. We will also allow communities that host renewable energy projects to keep the additional business rates they generate."

I will be holding the Government accountable to this pledge, as I feel that it will be wholly beneficial for communities like Shrewsbury to have such green energy creating projects.

Daniel Kawczynski MP

Shrewsbury and Atcham