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"The Australian Gas Infrastructure Group breached the Greenwashing Code with a
social media post claiming electric cooktops are vastly more expensive and more
emissions intensive than cooking with gas, Australia’s advertising regulator
has ruled.
Renew Economy reported in January the Australian Gas Infrastructure Group
(AGIG), which owns two of Victoria’s three gas networks and several in other
states, had shared the post to professional networking website LinkedIn,
raising questions about whether it was “potentially misleading”.
The AGIG post did not make statements directly about induction cooktops, but
makes repeated comparisons between gas cooktops and other competing products
such as mixed gas and induction cooktops, and old-style electric coil and plate
cooktops.
In a 5 March decision published online this week, the Ad Standards Community
Panel found the advertisement broke three sections of the Environmental Claims
Code, saying the advertisement was misleading or deceptive, overstated its
claims and could not be verified or substantiated by an average viewer."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
