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Tar Sands News
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Round up: Tar Sands Shareholder Resolutions Thanks to thousands of you taking action, Shell's AGM saw 1 in 10 shareholders backing or abstaining on our tar sands resolution, just weeks after investors controlling £10 billion in BP's stock also refused to back management on tar sands. Read on for campaign and media highlights. |
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'It's our money after all': FairPensions' CEO Catherine Howarth 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 tells Sarah Arnott. |
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Breaking news: 11% vote against Shell management on tar sands 18.05.2010 At Shell's AGM, 11% of shareholders refused to back management's recommendation to oppose a special resolution co-ordinated by FairPensions on the company's controversial investments in the Canadian tar sands. |
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New report: environmental & financial risks of tar sands 17.05.2010 While public attention is focused on widespread environmental and financial damage from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a new Ceres report released today shows that the environmental and financial risks of producing oil in Canada's vast oil sands region may be even greater. |
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Shell response to co-filers 13.05.2010 Days ahead of their AGM, Royal Dutch Shell respond to The Co-Operative Asset Management regarding a request from co-filers for additional information on operational issues and the economic viability of in situ projects. |
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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. |
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Comment is free: 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. |
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15% vote against BP management on tar sands 15.04.2010 As significant numbers of investors support or abstain on tar sands resolution, investors say BP "carried the vote but not the argument". |
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ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil latest to be challenged on oil sands risk 13.04.2010 As shareholders gather in London this week for BP's AGM, American and British investors are coordinating in a unique effort putting pressure on four major oil multinationals over their controversial investments in the Canadian oil sands. |
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New wave of global investors support BP oil sands resolution 08.04.2010 With a week to go before BP's annual general meeting, a growing wave of support from global investors is emerging for the resolution - co-ordinated by FairPensions and opposed by BP management - questioning the company's planned oil sands projects. |
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What do Thom Yorke and Zac Goldsmith have in common? 06.04.2010 Thom York, Alistair McGowan, Zac Goldsmith, Simon Hughes and Caroline Lucas are all counting the cost of tar sands ... are you? |
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European action on tar sands 29.03.2010 FairPensions' Counting the Cost campaign has been growing fast, with public mobilisation sweeping across Europe. In conjunction with FairPensions, the campaign has been launched by Friends of the Earth Europe in 16 countries. |
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Churches call for principles to be put into practice 25.03.2010 The National Pensions Reserve Fund today faces calls from British and Irish church-based investor coalition the Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility to back up its statements on Responsible Investment by supporting resolutions on tar sands at Shell and BP's annual general meetings. |
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MPs take action on tar sands - have you? 11.03.2010 In an exciting development for FairPensions' ongoing tar sands shareholder campaign, questions about the financial, environmental and social risks associated with investments in Canada's tar sands have been raised in Parliament. |
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Campaign launch: are you funding climate chaos? 19.02.2010 Tar sands are one of the biggest single factors threatening efforts to tackle climate change. This spring, your pension provider will vote on tar sands developments at shareholder meetings of BP and Shell, and will be making up its mind about how to vote anytime now. Use the power of your pension to force a review of this damaging and risky activity. |
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FairPensions joins with investors and NGOs to take action on the "dirtiest possible" fuel 08.02.2010 FairPensions, working with a coalition of investors and NGOs, has succeeded in co-ordinating shareholder resolutions to be discussed at the 2010 shareholder meetings of both Royal Dutch Shell plc and BP plc. |
