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Misleading Shell Oil ads removed from British media

Posted at 5:51 PM on 07 Nov 2007

Shell Oil has removed ads from Britain's media after the country's Advertising Standards Authority criticized the company's claim to consumers that "we use our waste CO2 to grow flowers." A complaint from activist groups estimated that perhaps 0.325 percent of Shell's emission of poor, misunderstood CO2 emissions are used to grow flowers.

sources: Associated Press, Reuters

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