'It's our money after all': FairPensions  takes on the system 20.05.2010

The Independent's Business Interview: Pension holders have a right to know how their funds are invested, FairPensions' chief executive Catherine Howarth tells Sarah Arnott.

Read more

Tar Sands Photo Feature: Power Struggle 08.05.2010

FairPensions and ECCR supporter Canon Hall talks to the Daily Telegraph about how the normally dull company AGM has become an unlikely battleground, with green-minded pension fund members taking on the energy giants exploiting the controversial tar sands of western Canada.

View photo feature

Catherine Howarth: BP investors must urge transparency 07.05.2010

Writing in the wake of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, FairPensions' CEO Catherine Howarth argues that shareholders need to know  that everything possible is being done to identify and address the risks of unconventional oil extraction.

Read article

Oil giants on sticky ground 16.04.2010

Sarah Arnott reports on the BP AGM and the "unprecedented shareholder campaign against its investments in controversial Canadian tar sands".

Read article

Peston's Picks: BP, Oil Sands and Democracy 11.04.2010

"Since we seem to be talking about democracy and voting, it's as well to remind ourselves of one of the great democratic deficits - which is the yawning gap between the owners of public companies and their managers."

Read article

The responsible investment revolution begins here 21.02.2010

The Observer newspaper gets behind the Counting the Cost campaign with a series of articles urging readers to take action to mobilise the power of their pension funds on tar sands.

Read article (1) | Read article (2) | Read article (3)

More Media Coverage

Visit our tar sands media archive.

Campaign Highlights

View campaign highlights.