Shell’s Misleading Ad: Complaints Submitted, ‘Oil Refineries Emit Smoke Not Flowers’

BELGIUM, UK, THE NETHERLANDS - May 8 -Complaints are being filed today, May 8, in three European countries against a shameless advert that makes exaggerated and misleading green claims about oil giant Shell’s operations.

Friends of the Earth International is filing simultaneous complaints to the national advertising standards authorities of Belgium, the Netherlands, and the UK about Shell’s advert which depicts the outline of an oil refinery emitting flowers rather than smoke and claims that it uses its “waste CO2 to grow flowers and [its] waste sulphur to make concrete”….([1] Full Story — off-site)