The ASA will announce on Wednesday that it has upheld a complaint against Shell by WWF, the environmental charity, about the oil companys claims that oil sands in Canada were a sustainable energy source.
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BBC Newsnight: Oil giants set sights on Sakhalin
BBC Newsnight: Oil giants set sights on Sakhalin
The big oil giants are all hunting for new reserves, but none more so than Shell after it was forced to downgrade its reserves in a financial scandal last year.: “
By Emma Simpson: BBC Newsnight (Broadcast 10.35pm Wednesday 14 Sept 2005
Hurricane Katrina has focused attention on the need to find new supplies of energy.
Shell, the British-Dutch oil company, is building one of the world’s largest oil and gas developments off Sakhalin island, in the Russian far east.
The big oil giants are all hunting for new reserves, but none more so than Shell after it was forced to downgrade its reserves in a financial scandal last year.
They’re now banking on this inhospitable corner of Russia, iced over for much of the year, and prone to earthquakes.