Activists slam Shell's corporate practices

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THE GUARDIAN , LONDON

Oil giant Shell's battered reputation took another pounding yesterday on Wednesday when Friends of the Earth and activists from around the world accused the Anglo-Dutch energy group of polluting communities, damaging wildlife and endangering human health.

Tony Juniper, Friends's executive director, said Shell -- a self-styled pioneer in sustainable development -- had exaggerated its social and environmental performance in the same way as it had overstated its oil and gas reserves.

The devastating critique, in the form of an alternative annual re-port, Beyond the Shine, condemns the company for using double standards in rich and poor regions and making empty promises about making good the damage it has allegedly wrought.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worldbiz/archives/2004/06/25/2003176480

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1. BBC video on this subject here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/newsnight/newsnight.ram

starting at about 24:30. It lasts about 6 miuntes.