In a battle that will be a proxy for the political brawl in Canberra and elsewhere between business, climate change believers and the Abbott government, BHP Billiton, the world’s biggest miner, has told shareholders to reject a noted climate change activist who has nominated himself for the company’s board.
The activist – former coal company executive Ian Dunlop – has a resume that would cause any mining company here or around the world to consider him, with decades of high-level experience in the industry. But BHP chairman Jacques Nasser and the rest of the board have resorted to the tired canard that Dunlop is a “single-issue” candidate and therefore not suited to the boardroom of BHP.
See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=12456.
See also: An oil and gas executive we can (sort of) get behind!
http://platformlondon.org/2013/10/10/an-oil-and-gas-executive-we-can-sort-of-get-behind/