…..Wants investors to vote against the Directors at tomorrow’s AGM. BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. May 30, 2023… The Peoples AGM, a Pan-Nigeria Civil Society platform campaigning for the enforcement of Paris Climate Agreement has urged Chevron, an oil company operating in Nigeria to cut emissions at source and stop relying on false solutions. Convener of the Peoples AGM, the Rev. David […]
Wants shareholders to reverse trend at 2023 AGM. BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. May 25, 2023…. The peoples AGM platform has criticized Total Energies, Eni, and Equinor for their role in prioritizing oil and gas investments that is fueling the climate crisis despite the urgent need to transit to clean, renewable energy, calling on investors and shareholders at Total Energies AGM scheduled […]
MAY 17TH AND 18TH, 2023 As the AGMs of oil multinationals such SHELL, Total Energies, Exxon Mobil, and others hold this season, the peoples AGM platform convened by ANEEJ organized an alternative AGM in Abuja, Nigeria to discuss and take resolution on concrete issues affecting the people of Niger Delta and other frontline communities suffering environmental degradation and loss of […]
Want WB, AfDB, and Export Credit Agencies to discontinue financing fossil fuel projects ABUJA, NIGERIA. May 18, 2023… Civil Society Organisations working under the aegis of the People’s Annual General Meeting (PAGM), a shadow Annual meeting to that of oil majors, have called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC Ltd, to as a matter of […]
Dear Mr. Tangen,In January 2012, we and other Nigerian groups, joined by allies from across Africa and around the world, wrote a letter to the chair of the Norwegian Council on Ethics. It welcomed the Council’s plan to investigate oil pollution in the Niger Delta and the impact this may have on theenvironment and human health. We noted that it […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. May 15, 2023… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has welcomed the commitment by the Church of England to vote against Shell’s Chair and Directors and the transition plan update during the company’s 2023 Annual general meeting scheduled for 23rd May, 2023. The Church also re-echoed its earlier announcement that it now needs to […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA. August 25, 2022… Leaders of the Lagos Peoples Movement, a grassroots environmental activist behind the Shadow Shell Annual General Meeting in Lagos have called on the Chair of the Church of England Pensions Board, Clive Mather to resign for being a shareholder in Shell and, hence being a stumbling block for divestment of the Church’s £3.5bn fund from […]
A broad-based coalition of civil society organisations comprising people of the Niger Delta region, environmental activists, representatives of host oil and gas communities, human rights groups, students, youths, artisans, and media practitioners, on Monday, held a rally at the office of the British oil and gas company, Shell PLC, Marina, in Lagos.The CSOs were asking that Shell should stop oil […]
BY LEO ATAKPU Shell has been active in the Niger Delta since the 1930s, leaving the people of the Niger Delta with little more than sorrow, tears and blood. Shell’s presence alongside other multinational oil companies led to loss of livelihoods, and conflicts that led to loss of lives and property. Thirty years ago the Movement for the Survival of […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA. May 23, 2022… Ahead of the Annual General Meeting of the oil and gas giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, scheduled for tomorrow, a broad-based Civil Society Organisations have called on the church of England and other investors to stop lending moral and financial support to shell and should vote against Shell’s energy transition strategy at the AGM. […]