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Investors register protest over BP’s safety committee chairman
Investors demonstrated their frustration with oil major BP’s response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill at its annual general meeting yesterday. Some 43% of shareholder votes at the bruising AGM abstained or voted against Safety, Ethics and Environmental Assurance Committee chairman Sir William Castell, according to the Christian Brothers Investment Services…And 25% abstained or voted against the company’s remuneration report, while 15% abstained or voted against its report and accounts; 15% abstained or voted against BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg. In 2010, just 1% withheld support from the report and accounts...“We are now systematically implementing the lessons we have learned from the incident,” [BP CEO] Dudley told the AGM.