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Dr. Anne Poelina and Micklo Corpus defend country at Buru’s AGM
Outside the Buru Energy Annual General Meeting (AGM) 20-30 people gathered in support of Traditional Custodians Micklo Corpus Yawuru and Dr Anne Poelina, a Nyikina Warrwa woman from the West Kimberley region of Western Australia. Noongar Elder Uncle Ben Taylor,...
FAR: ‘two degrees is laughable in the extreme’
FAR is an Australian owned oil and gas company which operates in Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Australia and Senegal, a country already facing severe impacts from climate change. Currently the executive bonuses of FAR are tied to how much oil and gas they find. CEO Catherine...
Sundance: Not aware of any risks from climate change
25 May 2017 Sundance Energy, the company that had its annual general meeting in Adelaide today, has had a tough run lately. US Secretary of State and former CEO of Exxon Mobil Mr. Tillerson sued them because he alleged that his $5 million property was in danger due to...
Shareholder win! Oil Search commits to climate risk disclosure
19 May 2017 After months of pressure from shareholders, Oil Search confirmed at their AGM today that the company would commit to conduct and release an analysis of how it performs in a scenario where global warming is contained to 2 degrees and 1.5 degrees. The...
Sino Gas: climate change not a business risk
18 May 2017 Sino Gas is a small Australian owned unconventional gas company which operates in China. Despite the known risks to land, water and human health associated with fracking, the Macquarie Bank has lent to Sino Gas, as have other international banks. Sino Gas...
2017 AGM: Rio Tinto ignore community and climate concerns
4 May 2017 Rio Tinto has been taken to task over its slow response to investors' climate concerns. At the company's London annual general meeting last year, shareholders passed a resolution calling on the company to disclose their strategy for dealing with the risks...
Media release: Santos admit to ‘four degree’ climate policy, backed by institutional investors
Adelaide, 4 May 2017 In a remarkable admission at the AGM of Australian oil and gas firm Santos today, Chairman Peter Coates revealed its business model is based on a ‘four degree’ climate pathway, completely at odds with international efforts to meet the Paris...
Santos shows contempt for investors, climate change, at its AGM
Adelaide, Thursday, 4 May 2017 A resolution that would have directed Santos to disclose the risks climate change poses to its business has been defeated at today's annual general meeting of the company, which reiterated its intent to explore for more unconventional...
Westpac tests the patience of ethical investors
9 December 2016 Westpac’s ‘clean and green’ image was shattered today at their Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Adelaide. It started outside the venue where a group of young people presented Westpac with a ‘climate hypocrite’ award for their bankrolling of dirty fossil...