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Scoop Images: Polar Bears Win 13% Vote At BP AGM
GreenPeace protestors dressed as Polar Bears attending yesterdays BP Amoco AGM in London. The protestors won a victory when 13.5% of BP shareholders voted in favour of a resolution calling on the company to abandon its Northstar exploration and exploitation programme.
Meanwhile back in Alaska Kiwi activist Tanya Popp has been released on bail of $7,500.00 USD.
She is permitted to travel to UK and New Zealand, but must not return to the North Slope before her hearing in mid July 2000.
For more information on the BP
AGM see...
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0004/S00064.htm
GreenPeace
BP Amoco AGM Speech - Matthew Spencer
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0004/S00063.htm
13% Of
BP Amoco Vote Support Greenpeace Resolution
both in the Scoop Politics wire.
Final photo. (c) Greenpeace/Davison
Greenpeace protesters dressed
as polar bears under Umbrella at Royal Festival Hall, London
13 April 2000. AP Photo/Dave Newman
Bear outside Bp AGM April 13,
2000. Photo (c)
Greenpeace/Davison
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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