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Shell Game
Misleading Shell Oil ads removed from British media |
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07 Nov 2007 |
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| 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 < Previous | ... |
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| Topics: Big Oil, climate, dumbassery , greenhouse-gas emissions, news (all these topics) |
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