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“It’s up to shareholders if they want to divest at any time,” Goyder said.
He said the company was committed to the Paris agreement, which aims to limit global heating to less than 1.5C and rejected a suggestion from Julien Vincent, the lead campaigner for shareholder activist group Market Forces, that Woodside’s internal projections were based on heating of 3c.
“It’s kind of like saying you’re a Dockers fan and then getting a membership out for the Eagles,” Vincent told the meeting.
Goyder said the Paris agreement contained a number of different scenarios.
“The majority of scenarios see an increase in gas,” he said.
Woodside forced to change tack
Woodside, Australia’s largest oil and gas company with a license to drill for natural gas in the Rakhine Basin, has felt the pressure of community protests and changed tack.
Following the February 1 coup, Woodside initially said their “drilling campaign remains on schedule”. Chief Executive Officer Peter Coleman told
Energy News Bulletin, “It’s not up to us to judge the veracity of grievances [the military] have around the previous election process.”
In response to the vehement backlash to these comments, Coleman released a media statement on February 19, which said: “I regret that I made some remarks in a media interview that have been interpreted as condoning what has occurred in Myanmar.”
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