OPEN LETTER
Tell HESTA to divest from Woodside!
An open letter to HESTA from members: it’s time to ditch Woodside
Bushfire survivor and HESTA member Jo Dodds recently made headlines by submitting a legal challenge to the fund over its investments in Woodside and Santos. Now other members are getting behind Jo and demanding HESTA divests from Woodside over its decision to develop a new oil field.
The open letter can be found at the bottom of this page.
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HESTA – which has long claimed to be a climate leader – placed climate wreckers Woodside and Santos on a ‘watchlist’ in 2022, asking these companies to demonstrate how their business strategies are aligned with global climate goals. Yet Woodside has recently made the decision to proceed with a new oil field in the Gulf of Mexico, a massive step in the opposite direction – and so far, HESTA has failed to respond.
The science is clear that achieving global climate goals means no new fossil fuels, but companies like Woodside continue to recklessly pursue oil and gas expansion plans which are destroying our chances of meeting these goals.
HESTA must now live up to its claims of climate leadership by demonstrating to Woodside that fossil fuel expansion is unacceptable as it is incompatible with a safe climate future.
HESTA: It’s time to ditch Woodside.
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