Lawyers are looking into awarding of £300m sea wall project to China Harbour Engineering Company after complaint from Belgian contractor
A £300m contract with a Chinese company to build a sea wall for the government’s flagship renewable energy project at Swansea Bay has been called into question amid allegations that it may have been awarded improperly. Lawyers for the tidal lagoon scheme’s promoter are reviewing a challenge understood to have come from Belgian contractors who were shortlisted but lost out to China Harbour Engineering Company, an arm of China Communications Construction Company (CCCC). The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) confirmed on Sunday that it was aware of claims about the agreement.
The energy secretary, Amber Rudd, gave permission last week for the £1bn project to provide power for 150,000 homes, in what the government hopes will be the first of a string of such projects around the coastline.
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