Shell quits wind power scheme
Updated on 01 May 2008
Oil giant Shell has pulled out of the flagship London Array wind power project.
The future of the world's largest wind farm could be at risk - after the giant oil firm Shell announced it was pulling out.
The company said it would sell its interest in the London Array, a scheme to build 350 turbines in the Thames estuary and generate enough electricity to power a quarter of the capital's homes.
The Environment Secretary Hillary Benn said he was 'very disappointed' over Shell's decision.
And one of the other key partners in the consortium, E.ON, told this programme it had put the whole project in jeopardy. Our science correspondent Julian Rush reports.
