RBS, the tarsands and the climate camp
How RBS funds ‘dirty oil’ Last weekend, Royal Bank of Scotland faced its biggest protests in a long history of protests. Environmental groups and hundreds of climate protesters camped on the lawn at RBS’s Gogarburn headquarters, on the outskirts of Edinburgh. At the centre of the protest was a growing anger at the bank’s role [...]
Question over funds for investment in Vedanta
Today, shareholders will be attending the AGM of Vedanta Resources, a UK-listed mining company whose operations in Orissa, India, have been the subject of international criticism. An existing alumina factory at the foot of the Niyamgiri hills is alleged to be polluting waterways and damaging crops, while plans to build a bauxite mine at the [...]
BankTrack calls on banks to stop funding nuclear power
BankTrack, in cooperation with a number of working partners, today (26 May 2010) launches http://www.nuclearbanks.org, a new website mapping the involvement of 45 leading commercial banks in funding nuclear power projects and companies active in the nuclear sector. These banks include British-based Barclays, HSBC and RBS. BankTrack considers nuclear energy a grave danger for people [...]
Shell, RBS challenged over tarsands
Shell: investor campaigners strike blow on tar sands Shareholders have fired another warning shot across the bows of an oil major with just under 11% of shareholder votes at today’s annual general meeting of oil giant Shell refusing to back management over the controversial Canadian tar sands issue. See http://www.responsible-investor.com/home/article/shell_investor_campaigners/. RBS AGM – the aftermath [...]
Actions against RBS
Week of action against RBS Publicly-owned bank RBS was targeted last week for, among other things, its investments in coal, oil, tarsands and UK-registered mining company Vedanta. The company’s AGM was held in Edinburgh on Wednesday 28 April. See http://www.sead.org.uk/today-rbs-public-shareholders-take-to-the-eicc, http://www.wdm.org.uk/cleaning-scotlands-banks and http://www.foe-scotland.org.uk/node/702. Blog post: Meeting with Philip Hampton, Chairman of RBS by Deborah Doane, [...]
keep looking »
