Shell was accused yesterday of "selling suicide on the forecourt" by pressing ahead with tar sands operations in Canada and continuing to flare off excess gas in Nigeria while pulling out of renewable schemes such as the London Array - the world's largest offshore wind scheme.
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Shell ‘selling suicide’ by preferring tar sands to wind
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Wind farms stalled by five-year planning delays
The fragility of the wind power business was highlighted recently when Shell pulled out of the world's biggest offshore wind farm - the London Array, off Kent - because of spiralling costs associated with planning delays.
Oil veteran Boone Pickens makes $2bn gamble on wind farm in Texas
Royal Dutch Shell is also planning a 3,000-megawatt wind farm in the state.
Shell’s withdrawal from the Thames Estuary wind farm project
Daily Telegraph Letters: Wind and snow
Both Shell and BP employ significant engineering and planning resources to determine viable business opportunities for their companies. So the withdrawal of Shell from the Thames Estuary wind farm project and BP’s stated lack of interest in wind turbines strongly endorse Christopher Booker’s assertions (May 4) that wind turbines are not an economic or reliable way to produce electricity.
Bruce Tait, Hythe, Kent
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/05/11/nosplit/dt1101.xml
Big oil now seeing green
Shell co-owns a wind farm in Lamar and is involved in 11 wind projects in the U.S. and Europe.
‘No plans’ for oil windfall tax
...he admitted it was a "disappointment" that Shell had announced it would pull out of a giant wind farm scheme in the Thames Estuary
London Array: Shell Lets Her Majesty Down
The UK was set to be the world leader in building offshore wind farms, but Shell said it was selling its stake in what would be the worlds biggest, with a 1,000 megawatt capacity.
Comment by Christopher Zurcher of Zurcher Communications on Shell’s unexpected withdrawal from the London Array Wind Farm project
Does it take someone with less intelligence to think it would behoove companies like Shell to put some of their resources toward things that would help the planet theyre so greedily set on raping for crude profits?
In search of some wind in their sails
Shell may have been concerned by the rising price of offshore wind, but it is seriously misguided if it thinks that concentrating its efforts on extracting the remaining fossil fuels is a better bet than renewables in the medium or long term.
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