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PowerGen Renewables has called on the government to speed up the planning process for wind farm developments. Chris Morris, general manager of the wind farm company, told a parliamentary conference on renewable and sustainable energy that councils often fail to help developers in the face of local opposition.


All UK readers should find inserted with this issue a joint survey by SM and Visa International. It aims to gauge purchasing and supply professionals' opinions of the European currency on a range of supply issues ahead of its introduction on 1 January 2002.


Anglo-Dutch steel producer Corus is to spend up to £500 million on plant investment over the next five years, but most of the money will be spent outside the UK. Sir Brian Moffat, Corus’s chairman, said that the company needed to be closer to its markets and boost sales in specialised grades of metal suited to high-value products.
Richard Koch Nicholas Brealey, £18
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