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CDP: increased water risk awareness, lagging board response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... the survey. BHP Billiton, CSL, Rio Tinto, Wesfarmers and Woolworths Limited all answered the question, while Woodside Petroleum declined to participate, according to the report. There is an increase in the amount of collaborative action to develop shared ...

Broadbent named chair of CEFC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... development projects and an Australia Pacific LNG director. He was responsible for Origin's major capital projects in upstream petroleum, power generation, and low-emissions technology businesses. He is currently a director of Geodynamics Limited, Horizon ...

ARENA board members, CEO named

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Donaghey has a background in strategic planning, general management and business analysis with senior roles at Woodside Petroleum and BHP Billiton. Twidell is currently executive director of the Australian Solar Institute. The board members join Greg ...

Skills shortage in oil and gas sector a material ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... such, companies such as Total Gabon, which "recently announced a partnership with the government of Gabon to create a petroleum technical skills school in order to address the lack of appropriately-skilled people in the workforce, the paper said. AXA ...

Call for working group on shareholder resolution reform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... Climate Advocacy Shareholder Group to propose a resolution that would have amended the corporate constitution of Woodside Petroleum Ltd to require disclosure of the company's assumptions of future carbon prices, oil prices, demand for oil and regulation ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... industries that would be worse off include fossil-fuel industries such as coal mining, crude oil and gas extraction, petroleum refining and gas utilities, and carbon-intensive primary and manufacturing industries, including mining, most electrical power ...

Use of renewable energy to grow by 6% a year to 2035

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... grow the fastest, with projected increases of 7.6% a year. Meanwhile, declining oil production and constraints around petroleum refining "suggest" that net imports of crude oil and refined petroleum products will increase at an average rate of 3.1% a ...

Governance, environmental issues for AGM season

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... Australian Ethical Investment. Earlier this year, the Climate Advocacy Shareholder Group tabled a resolution at Woodside Petroleum Ltd' s AGM that would have amended the corporate constitution to require disclosure of the company's assumptions of future ...

Jillian Broadbent to chair Clean Energy Finance Corp panel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... Reserve Bank, has been named chair of the review panel for the CEFC. She has previously served as a director of Woodside Petroleum, Coca-Cola Amatil and Qantas Airways. The government has also named to the panel David Paradice, founder of Paradice Investment ...

Investor Profile: Australian Ethical Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... and we trust they'll do it. Aquila Resources and Paladin Energy made similar commitments. With the case of Woodside Petroleum, we actually had to put up a slightly harsher resolution - not an ordinary resolution, which would need a 50% vote, but a change ...