6. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Offshore renewable energy

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:00 pm on 18 January 2023.

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Photo of Andrew RT Davies Andrew RT Davies Conservative 5:00, 18 January 2023

I'm grateful to you, Minister, for being so generous with interventions. And I agree that it was a missed opportunity not to build Swansea tidal lagoon. I agree with that. But an important point that my colleague, Paul Davies, raised was the ability of NRW to license these schemes, and that was an unwritten agenda item to do on behalf of the Welsh Government. NRW would not issue the marine licences, and the developers were deeply concerned that, even if they had the go-ahead, they wouldn't have been able to proceed because those marine licences weren't forthcoming.