Mandela, Nigeria Connection

There is one freedom Nelson Mandela did not have to fight for… the freedom to inhabit one’s own land– free of toxic waste.

Despite Shell’s dirty record in Nigeria and elsewhere, the company continues to try to falsely portray itself as “green” in its advertising, a practice known as “greenwashing.” The U.K.’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has found that Shell’s environmental claims violated advertising rules. In 2007, Friends of the Earth filed complaints about a Shell ad featuring an oil refinery emitting flowers that was accompanied by a claim that its carbon dioxide waste was used to grow flowers. The chairman of ASA called it “a ridiculous claim” and Shell was forced to pull the ad. In 2008, the ASA banned Shell’s ad that claimed it was building a “profitable and sustainable future” through its development of the largest oil refinery in the U.S. and its petroleum mining in a Canadian oil sands deposit.

Nigeria must fight this one, for I am going under… I am losing my capacity to…elirueqwo ifr vortex-jv;eir j[otrjq’trgkpb   the horror…. oh the horror…I have heard of this happening before here. Coulditb;;;

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