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Article

16 May 2007

Author:
Terry Macalister, Guardian [UK]

Shell under fire over efforts to paint itself green

Shell came under fire at its annual meeting yesterday from environmental campaigners who accused it of peddling "shameful, absurd and misleading" adverts about its green credentials and of presiding over a growing number of oil spills and defying court orders to halt gas flaring in Nigeria...Friends of the Earth (FoE) said that Shell had taken out a series of adverts that presented the company as a leader in renewable energy...Yet less than 1% of Shell's schemes related to renewable power whereas "99% are not sustainable" because they are related to oil and gas, said Paul de Clerck, a representative from FoE…Rob Routs, a board member...denied that Shell was deliberately misleading anyone…