Green campaigners attack Shell

Terry MacalisterTuesday May 15, 2007Guardian Unlimited
Shell came under fire at its annual meeting today 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.
The Dutch arm of 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 and one that was tackling carbon output from refineries by using it to grow flowers in nurseries.