Thu Jul 5, 2007 5:17 PM BST
AMSTERDAM, July 5 (Reuters) – A Dutch advertising watchdog on Thursday banned a Royal Dutch Shell Plc poster ad about its pro-environment activities, Friends of the Earth Netherlands said.
The environmental group had complained about an ad designed to show how waste carbon dioxide grew flowers and depicting a “refinery emitting flowers from its chimneys instead of smoke.”
The Anglo-Dutch oil giant confirmed it had received notice from the Dutch Advertising Authority, although it had only taken issue with a some parts of the poster and not the whole ad.
“We don’t think their claims were justified,” said a spokesman for Shell, adding that the advertisements were no longer in circulation.
The environment group argued that only a tiny proportion of Shell’s total carbon dioxide emissions is piped into greenhouses.
“For instance, in Nigeria, gas flaring by Shell causes 60 times more greenhouse gas emissions than the carbon dioxide that is reused by Dutch farmers to grow flowers,” Anne van Schaik, a campaign leader at Friends of the Earth, said in a statement.
The group also complained about another Shell advertisement, in which Shell said it uses its waste sulphur to make concrete, even though much of it was used for fuel in ships and released into the air as sulphur dioxide.
The advertisement appeared in several countries in Western Europe, Friends of the Earth said. A case is pending in Britain, and in Belgium the group’s claims were rejected, the group said.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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