17 June 2022 Today, more than one hundred health and community services workers across Australia shifted millions of dollars away from HESTA over the fund’s investments in companies expanding fossil fuels. In the single biggest climate divestment day targeting a...
Rachel Deans
Mineral Resources pursues pathway out of line with 1.5°C
The Mineral Resource board made it clear at yesterday’s annual general meeting (AGM) that they would continue to pursue dirty oil and gas development despite their peer Fortescue Metals announcing a major move into renewable energy and green hydrogen. Mineral...
BlueScope Steel lagging on emission reduction targets
BlueScope Steel, the multinational steel-making corporation, is one of Australia’s major consumers of energy. The company requires large amounts of energy to be able to create steel via its smelting, furnace and production operations and is one of the top 20 energy...
Climate scepticism remains at the top of AMP
Last week in the USA, JPMorgan Chase announced the demotion of former Exxon CEO and architect of climate denial, Lee Raymond, from his previous lead director role. Yet in Australia, the head of AMP David Murray stays in his position of chairman despite having...
Westpac: a laggard on climate change
12 December 2019 Westpac’s board knew they would be facing fired-up shareholders at today’s annual general meeting (AGM) but perhaps weren’t prepared to bear the weight of responsibility for the impacts on communities and customers fighting the climate crisis. ...
Oil and gas still a major focus for Karoon Energy
29 November 2019 Karoon Energy has been given plenty of opportunities to provide a credible and evidence-based climate risk management plan, but continues to shirk this responsibility to its shareholders. At Karoon’s 2018 AGM, CEO Robert Hosking claimed “We are at...
Mineral Resources: relying on others to find a solution to the climate crisis
20 November, 2019 Mineral Resources is predominantly an iron-ore miner and mining services company. But the company’s November 2017 acquisition of Energy Resources Pty Ltd means it now holds nine exploration permits for substantial oil and gas projects in the onshore...
Senex: company statements on the Paris Agreement are hollow
18 November 2019 Senex, an Australian oil and gas company, states in its annual report that the company “recognises and accepts the science of climate change and fully supports the objectives of limiting global temperate rise as agreed by governments in the 2015 Paris...
Prairie Mining directors still failing to meet legal obligations
November 18, 2019 Last year, Prairie Mining Ltd chair Ian Middlemas was singled out by the Guardian as a director that may be struggling to understand his legal obligation to consider the risks that climate change poses to the business. Middlemas' statements at...
Shareholder revolt sees LNG Limited’s Chairman ousted
15 November 2019 LNG Limited shareholders are clearly fed up with the company’s terrible financial performance in recent years, with the company's share price now sitting at less than 5% of its 2015 peak. Huge protest votes were cast by LNG Limited shareholders...