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Public Relations officer for Shell thanks Bristol dignitaries

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

At an official reception launching Bristol Museum’s hosting of the Shell-sponsored wildlife photography competition, Bristol dignitaries heard a speech from ‘Derrick Leavussum’ of Shell thanking them for helping Shell to divert public attention from their anti-enviroment activites.  “We prefer not to see the melting of the icecaps as a threat to human society, we see it as a business opportunity.”  It took listeners a while to realise that Derrick was of course a spoof and that although everything he said was true it was not the greenwashed version of truth that Shell likes to make public.

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