By David Prosser
Published: 08 November 2007
Environmental campaigners launched a stinging attack on Shell yesterday after advertising regulators upheld complaints about claims the oil giant had made about its green credentials.
The Advertising Standards Authority said Shell had been wrong to run adverts which claimed “We use our waste CO2 to grow flowers” under the headline “Don’t throw anything away”.
The ruling followed complaints from groups such as Friends of the Earth which argued that Shell in fact used just 0.325 per cent of their global carbon emissions on projects involving local greenhouse growers. The ASA said Shell’s adverts had implied that all of its emissions were used in this way.
It also upheld complaints made about Shell’s claims that it used waste sulphur in concrete production, for the same reason.
Hannah Griffiths, a campaigner at Friends of the Earth, said: “Companies making false green claims do nothing but make the situation worse as they try to pull the wool over people’s eyes and lull them into a false sense of security – it’s a shame that the ASA does not have more teeth and that Shell wasn’t fined.”
Shell said it had not intended to mislead the public with its adverts and that it did not intend to use them again.
Meanwhile Shell’s chief executive, Jeroen van der Veer, announced an initiative in Russia to build a “huge-scale long-term liquid gas and oil project”. The oil giant said it will work with local companies to develop resources on the Yamal peninsula, in Russia’s Arctic north.
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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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