L'annonce vantait ensuite les investissements de Shell dans les sables bitumineux au Canada, et dans une raffinerie aux États-Unis. «Les sables bitumineux sont une source d'énergie incroyablement destructrice», ils «ne peuvent être considérés comme un moyen durable de satisfaire les besoins énergétiques futurs du monde», a affirmé David Norman, responsable de la branche britannique du WWF.
L'ASA a interdit au groupe pétrolier de faire paraître à nouveau cette publicité.
The greenwash ad / le pub en question
Oil giant Shell misled the public when it claimed in an advertisement that its giant $10bn oil sands project in northern Canada was a "sustainable energy source", according to the Advertising Standards Authority of the UK.The tar sands cover over 140,000 square kilometres of Alberta... This is strip-mined from vast open pits and the bitumen is then heated, using far larger amounts of energy than in normal oil operations, therefore causing greater carbon dioxide emissions. A recent report suggested that the production can create up to eight times as many emissions as conventional oil.
In one of the most significant "greenwash" rulings in some years, the independent body responsible for regulating UK advertising upheld a complaint from green campaign group WWF that Shell's advert in the Financial Times was "misleading". The ad must be withdrawn.
(see full text in The Guardian 13 Aug 2008)
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