Latest Media Coverage

BP debacle highlights need for responsible ownership (IPE 02.06.10)

Delays in sealing oil pipe fan doubts over BP's survival (Guardian 02.06.10)

Worsening Deepwater situation prompts speculation over BP's future (Guardian 02.06.10)

Royal Dutch Shell is hit by news hoax  (Times Online 18.05.10)

BP reduces Gulf of Mexico leak as new safety fears emerge (Telegraph 18.05.10)

Getting to know the whole picture (Investment Week 17.05.10)

How charities flex their ethical investment muscles (Third Sector 11.05.10)

BP investors must urge transparency (Guardian, Comment is Free 07.05.10)

Power struggle over Canada's 'dirty oil' sands (Telegraph 06.05.10)

BP shareholders challenge company over environmental safety (Guardian 04.05.10)

Media Coverage: Shell AGM (18 May 2010)

Oil and the new activists (Daily Mail 22.05.10)

11% of shareholders revolt over Shell tar sands resolution (IPE 20.05.10)

Shell: investor campaigners strike blow on tar sands (Responsible Investor 18.05.10)

Shell seeks to drill in Arctic seas this summer (The Guardian 18.05.10)

Shell investors reject tar sands resolution (The Scotsman 19.05.10)

Shell Holders Reject Resolution To Review Oil Sands Investment (Wall Street Journal 18.05.10)

Shell investors reject challenge to oil sands (Reuters Canada 18.05.10)

Shell faces shareholder questions on tar sands (The Independent 18.05.10)

Gulf of Mexico spill won't stop Shell drilling in Alaska (The Telegraph 19.05.10)

Investors reject Royal Dutch Shell oil sands review (Times Online 19.05.10)

Media Coverage: BP AGM (15 April 2010)

Oil giants on sticky ground (The Independent 16.04.10)

Shareholder abstention on oil sands resolution fires BP warning shot
(Responsible Investor 16.04.10)

Investors put Chardonnay before oil sands as protesters whine
(The Daily Telegraph 16.04.10)

BP plans to press ahead on Canada oil sands (FT 16.04.10)

Messy business at BP (FT 16.04.10)

BP to make decision on oil sands by year end (Times Online 15.04.10)

BP to continue with tar sands project (The Independent 15.04.2010)

BP defeats oil sands critics, but controversy won't die (Wall Street Journal 15.04.10)

Oil sands: Citi gives a tick for carbon costs, but a cross for emissions (FT 15.04.10)

Investor backlash over BP's 'Sunrise' (Daily Mail 15.04.10)

BP Faces Investor Revolt Over Executive Pay, Canadian Oil Sands
(Business Week 15.04.10)

BP faces down shareholder protest on oil sands project (BBC 15.04.10)

BP pledges not to use open-pit mining at Canadian oil sands sites (The Guardian 15.04.10)

BP feels oilsands heat from shareholders (CBC News 15.04.10)

Investor anger at BP tar sands project and chief’s pay (London Evening Standard 15.04.10)

What's in store today (Interactive Investor 15.04.10)

BP faces opposition to Canadian oil sands project (Business Week 15.04.10)

Tar sands controversy set to dominate BP AGM (Professional Pensions 14.04.10)

Media Coverage: General Tar Sands

May 2010

A Sticky Situation (Pensions Insight May 10)

Investor revolt over carbon risk marks line in the sand for energy giants
(Ethical Investor, p12-13 May 10)

April 2010

Institutionals split over oil sands resolutions (Pensions Week 20.04.10)

Sands are shifting for BP investors (FT 15.04.10)

BP braced for protests at annual meeting (Times 15.04.10)

BP faces investor revolt over Canadian oil sands project and CEO's pay
(The Telegraph 15.04.10)

BP faces investor flak over Canada tar sands project (The Guardian 15.04.10)

Oil sands: Citi gives a tick for carbon costs, but a cross for emissions
(FT Energy Source Blog 15.04.10)

Low prices, not protests, will stop BP (David Prosser, The Independent 14.04.10)

Oil sands involvement casts cloud over ConocoPhilips, ExxonMobil (The Gazette 14.04.10)

Majors under fire for Canadian oil sands (UPI 13.04.10)

Shell defends Canada oil sands investment (FT 12.04.10)

Shell fights shareholders' campaign for oil sands review (Guardian 12.04.10)

Shell defends Athabasca plan (Reuters 12.04.10)

Shell advises Holders to reject oil sands resolutions at AGM (Dow Jones 12.04.10)

Red letter week as investors face down BP and UBS (Responsible Investor 12.04.10)

NAPF fuels oils sands vote row (Pensions Week 12.04.10)

Leading firms face shareholders revolt (Daily Express 11.04.10)

BP, oil sands and democracy (BBC 11.04.10)

Shareholders may fail to drag BP out of tar sands but have won moral victory
(Observer 11.04.10)

US and Australian funds join BP rebellion on oil sands (The Telegraph 09.04.10)

BP exploration stirs investor criticism (Marketplace Radio 09.04.10)

BP oil sands resolution gains support (Financial Post 09.04.10)

Global pension funds support BP oil sands resolution (Global Pensions 08.04.10)

Shareholders at loggerheads over vote on BP's tar sands developments
(Observer 04.04.10)

The shareholder resolution spat over BP’s controversial tar sands plans
(Responsible Investor 01.04.10)

March 2010

Attack on BP's oil sands assessment (FT 28.03.10)

NRPF already aware and engaged on tar sands issues (IPE 26.03.10)

Shareowner activists request better disclosure of strategic risks by oil sands developers (SRI Advisor 12.03.10)

UK MPs call for Parliament pension fund to back investor tar sands campaign (RI 11.03.10)

Co-op backs oil sands awareness campaign (FT 15.03.10)

British MPs turn up the oil sands heat (Financial Post 10.03.10)

Shareholders challenge Shell to report on oil sands risks (CSRlive 16.03.10)

February 2010

Vote now to mobilise the power of your pension fund (Observer 28.02.10)

British firms face onslaught from tar sands campaigners (Observer 28.02.10)

The responsible investor revolution starts here  (Observer 21.02.10)

Campaign on tar sands extraction targets oil investors  (BBC 22.02.10)

Oil giants hit by concerns over tar sands (Interactive Investor 26.02.10)

BP and Shell face new shareholder revolt over tar sands (Ecologist 26.02.10)

FairPensions' Press Releases

11% of Shell shareholders rebel or abstain on tar sands despite investor relations offensive (18.05.2010)

Significant numbers of investors support or abstain on tar sands resolution (15.04.2010)

Tar sands controversy set to dominate BP AGM (14.04.2010)

Global investors support BP oil sands resolution (08.04.2010)

Churches and campaigners call on NPRF to invest responsibly (25.03.2010)

MPs call for Parliamentary pension fund to take stand on tar sands (11.03.2010)

BP faces new questions & growing public and investor mobilisation as it releases annual report (05.03.2010)

In UK first, pension scheme members mass mobilise over oil sands resolutions (22.02.2010)

BP latest to face shareholder mobilisation on oil sands (08.02.2010)

UK’s largest mobilisation of shareholders asks Shell to prove controversial oil sands are
sustainable (18.01.2010)