In 2017, Steve Rotheram vowed to build a barrage across the Mersey. Where is it?

In 2017, Steve Rotheram vowed to build a barrage across the Mersey. Where is it?

Dear readers — it’s been eight years since metro mayor Steve Rotheram first pledged to build a barrage across the Mersey as part of his election campaign. If built, it would be the biggest tidal barrage in the world, generating the equivalent of two-thirds of Liverpool’s 2017 electricity requirement, and powering “over a million homes”, according to press releases from the Combined Authority. So far, over £7 million has been spent on research an…