Investor revolt rocks AGL

Yesterday’s annual general meeting of the nation’s biggest climate polluter, AGL, was a veritable bloodbath with Chairman Peter Botten hammered with a tsunami of questions on the company’s shocking environmental record, UN and IEA calls for a 2030 coal closure deadline and AGL’s billion-dollar loses and terminal share price.

Questions for which Botten seemed completely unprepared. AGL had no answers to why the company had been so badly mismanaged, other than to say ‘we’re not the only energy company doing it tough’. 

In a further blow, a majority of shareholders backed a resolution calling on AGL to disclose interim emissions targets towards the Paris climate goals for both of its planned demerged companies and in another indictment of AGL’s non-leadership, there was significant support for a teenage climate activist’s unlikely bid for a Board seat. Oh, and AGL is also headed to court again for allegedly failing to limit climate pollution.

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