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New UK Freeport Scheme Plans for Wind Produced Energy Facilities to Proliferate
Lobby Claims East Coast Weather Makes for Ideal Site
UK – One of the major disadvantages of Britain s east coast ports has always been the weather. The storms which sweep in from across the North Sea often hold up operations while the more sheltered facilities in places such as the River Thames can work on uninterrupted.
Now however it seems those easterly gales are being looked to for a source of new income by the partners involved in touting their application for a new Freeport East which centres on the ports of Felixstowe and Harwich. George Kieffer, Chairman of the Freeport East Project Board, explained: