Shell Action

7 April 2008


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Exhibition displays the reality of Shell's 'Energy Scenarios to 2050'

Friends of the Earth Europe displayed an exhibition on the extractives industry with images of Shell's operations around the world, showing the negative social and environmental effects of some of their activities. Campaigners also distributed an alternative publication of what Shell's future energy scenarios are likely to be, and spoke to Shell CEO, Jeroen Van Der Veer, and EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana.

Javier Solana, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, in front of the exhibition

Although presenting themselves as green, Shell in fact continues to be involved in a large number of environmentally and socially harmful activities, invests less than 1% in renewable energy, and talks about long term, highly destructive projects such as the Canadian oil sands as being the "foundations for Shell in the first half of the 21st century" (Shell CEO Van Der Veer in his February 2007 strategy update).

The 6 banner exhibition, part of a larger exhibition on the extractives industry to tour Europe this summer, showed images of Shell gas flaring in Nigeria, an illegal, wasteful and polluting activity; oil spills; accidents at Shell installations; and oil sands extraction - a highly inefficient and environmentally damaging activity in which producing a barrel of oil releases up to five times more greenhouse gas emissions than a barrel of conventional oil.

The exhibition of banners



Friends of the Earth Europe campaigns for sustainable and fair societies and for the protection of the environment,
unites more than 30 national organisations with thousands of local groups
and is part of the world's largest grassroots environmental network, Friends of the Earth International.