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14 Апр 2011

Автор:
Tim Webb, Karen McVeigh, Guardian [UK]

Protesters target BP annual meeting

BP executives faced angry protesters as shareholders prepared to vote at its annual meeting in London, which is taking place a few days before the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion. Fishermen and women from the Gulf coast affected by the spill, some of whom had bought BP shares to allow them to attend the annual meeting, joined climate change activists and artists protesting against the oil company. Institutional investors, angry at what they claim are excessive executive pay deals, urged shareholders to vote against the remuneration package…"[O]ur fishing grounds have been depleted, our oysters are dead and we're not receiving the funds we need to support and sustain ourselves…We're seeing money going everywhere but at ground zero.