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Water-based facility set to be located at the heart of city's SA1 waterfront scheme By Pete Hayman


GoWake – a new wakeboarding park in the heart of the SA1 development in Swansea, South Wales – is to open in time for this summer's tourism season. Located in the city's 28-acre


(11.3-hectare) Prince of Wales Dock, the venture is backed by the Welsh Assembly Govern- ment through its Single Investment Fund and by Associated British Ports. The proposed cable-powered


system at GoWake is capable of speeds of 25mph (40.2kmph). A portable, straight-line cable


system will be powered by an electric motor, with riders pulled across the surface of the water, using the resulting wake to perform manoeuvres and jumps. GoWake will operate on a year-round basis and is the


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The Swansea Bay wakeboarding venue is due to open this summer


result of a collaboration between two watersports operators – Gower Kiteriders and Big Blue Experience. It is hoped that the wake-


boarding park will provide a new attraction for the region, and add to the Bay's existing complement of watersports.


Matt Barker-Smith of Gower


Kiteriders said: "Active children become active adults, and by addressing the important issue of regular physical activity for good health we hope to invest in developing young peoples' participation – especially in outdoor sport."


ODA blows cold on Olympic Park's wind turbine By Martin Nash


The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has decided not to install a wind turbine on the Olympic Park site in east London. The turbine had been


proposed to the north of the site at Eton Manor as part of the ODA's target to deliver 20 per cent of the park's energy requirements from 2014, when the site is fully operational. However, a number of


factors – including new wider safety legislation applied to design elements of the turbine in question – have led to a


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timetable' in view of the new requirements – and the ODA has decided that it is no longer feasible for the turbine solution to move ahead. The ODA remains committed


The ODA has opted against the provision of a wind turbine


rethink of the proposals. As a result, the preferred bidder's turbine supplier for the project has withdrawn from the project – citing a 'challenging delivery


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to its sustainability targets and is now trying to identify alternative options for a renewable energy infrastruc- ture across the Olympic Park. Among these are the possible


installation of photo voltaic solar panels at various locations around the site and a biomass gasifi cation combined heat and power unit, which will be close to the energy centre site.


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