Wind Watch: Shell to quit wind projects

Royal Dutch Shell has become the second big energy company to abandon the UK wind-energy sector in the last month.

Shell, Danish firm Dong Energy and Scottish Power have cancelled the £800m Cirrus Array project off the northwest coast after five years and millions of pounds in investment.

The consortium blamed Ministry of Defence concerns over radar interference from turbines.

The halfway mark in Poznan...

Some observers were commenting on what they saw as an apparent lack of urgency. "We're all busy, but I don't hear many people acknowledging the sheer magnitude of our task over the next year, or worrying about the closing window of opportunity here in Poznan," said a delegate. "This is the last conference before Copenhagen, and we're already halfway through with little achieved," said another.