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Will BP and Shell finally walk up the aisle?
Shell to Sea Pirates begin Week of Action against Shell’s Solitaire
SHELL TO SEA CAMPAIGN
High Noon at Low Tide – Pirate Flotilla arrives at Glengad to plunder Shell’s plans and commence Shell to Sea Week of Action.
Today at noon a flotilla of sea kayaks reclaimed Glengad beach, Pollathomas, Co Mayo; the landfall site for Shells offshore pipeline.
Members of the Great Rebel Raft Regatta recently deployed at the E.ON coal fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent, England, have made their way from Climate Camp UK to Erris, in order to assist Shell to Sea campaigners in their opposition to this pipeline construction at Glengad.
The first wave of the Rebel Regatta arrived today following Marine & Public Information Notices which announced the arrival of the worlds largest pipe-laying vessel, the Solitaire, in Broadhaven Bay, anytime from today onwards.
Sustaina-bull
Peter Foster, Financial Post
Sustaina-bull: “There is a certain rich irony in Shell being hoist by its own environmental petard.”
This week, petroleum giant Royal Dutch Shell had its knuckles rapped by the U. K.’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over claims that its Canadian oil sands operations were “sustainable.” There is a certain rich irony in Shell being hoist by its own environmental petard. The company’s former CEO, Sir Philip Watts, once claimed that Shell’s commitment to sustainable development and corporate social responsibility were what elevated it above its rivals. That was before he was thrown out of the company for cooking the books.
Time for multi-dimensional communication with oil companies
Friday, 15 August 2008
GREENWASH: “SHELL DOES NOT APPEAR TO HAVE LEARNT ITS LESSON”
By Guest Author Dr Arlo Brady
For the second time in the last couple of years the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell has found itself at the heart of the debate about greenwash in advertising.
In 2007 Shell ads suggested rather bizarrely that it had been using its waste CO2 emissions to grow flowers: the ad was condemned by the British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). One year later another Shell ad has been banned. This time for suggesting that the company’s Canadian oil sand extraction operation was sustainable. Shell does not appear to have learnt its lesson.