This Month
- Opinion
- Gas
Why Albanese is going all in on gas
The Labor government has infuriated climate activists by insisting that gas will play a crucial role in the energy transition for many decades to come. Big producers like Woodside will wait to see what that means.
- Jennifer Hewett
Vanessa Hudson’s ACCC settlement is six months too late
Vanessa Hudson could have made settling the ACCC case a hallmark of her regime. Nine months after her elevation, it’s a little late for that.
- Myriam Robin
April
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Woodside and the new climate activists
Energy companies work in a twilight industry where demand still endures. They don’t know the answers to the questions investor activists are asking.
- Matthew Warren
- Analysis
- Gas
Woodside caught between twin objectives on a collision course
Woodside is hoping that technology, hard work and deployment will reconcile fidelity to net-zero with growth by pumping oil and gas.
- Ben Potter
Woodside looks inward after climate gambit defeated
The oil and gas producer felt the force of big super and green investors when it took a transition plan to shareholders. Now it has no choice but to do better on emissions.
- Anthony Macdonald
Woodside climate plan sunk but Goyder survives
The proxy battle pitched Australia’s largest gas producer against activists that argue its path could tip the balance towards more dangerous climate change.
- Updated
- Ben Potter and Tom Rabe
Richard Goyder’s D-Day with climate activists
The Woodside chairman’s fight against green activists has not been helped by an influential proxy report. Shame no one declared interests.
- Mark Di Stefano
- Opinion
- Gas
Goyder will face the music at Woodside AGM
Even if the chairman now looks certain to survive a substantial protest vote and be re-elected, it all adds up to a firm rebuff of the company’s decarbonisation plan.
- Jennifer Hewett
Richard Goyder’s legacy is tarnished by his two biggest mistakes
Readers’ letters on how the Qantas chairman failed passengers; holes in the argument of a made in Australia champion; US aid’s boost to Ukraine; the real value of Anzac Day; and a Bondi victim’s service to humanity.
Firm’s $14b closure; Crown Sydney’s win; the Dalio dilemma
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
- Exclusive
- Gas
Big US pension funds, Aware want Richard Goyder off Woodside board
But AustralianSuper says it will back the businessman, even as it votes against the oil and gas giant’s climate plans, at a shareholder meeting on Wednesday.
- Ben Potter and Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Goyder’s fight at Woodside highlights question of shareholder voice
Activist battles largely take place between big asset managers and their proxy advisers. Is it time their retail investors got more of a say in what they do?
- Jonathan Wenig
- Exclusive
- Climate policy
Richard Goyder counts down the days at Woodside, Qantas and the AFL
The businessman faces a crucial vote at the oil and gas giant’s annual meeting. He’s already planning his exit from the highest-profile boards in the country.
- Patrick Durkin
- Updated
- Energy
Woodside chief says her climate plan is ‘honest’, unlike some rivals
Ahead of a tense shareholder meeting next week, Meg O’Neill urged investors to support the emissions plan and back the re-election of chairman Richard Goyder.
- Updated
- Elouise Fowler
British shareholder LGIM piles more climate pressure on Woodside
The $2.3 trillion asset manager will vote against not only the gas giant’s climate plan but also against chairman Richard Goyder’s re-election.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Goyder pleads for support for Woodside’s climate plan
The vote on Woodside’s climate action plan goes to the heart of its credibility as a legacy fossil fuel company committed to transition to net-zero emissions.
- Updated
- Ben Potter
ASX slumps 1.4pc; Banducci threatened with jail; AFP’s terror warning
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Richard Goyder faces down a rabble of proxies
Should Goyder’s Qantas failures be a mark against him at Woodside? Depends who you ask.
- Mark Di Stefano
- Analysis
- Carbon challenge
Woodside treads impossibly fine line on climate demands
Whether new oil and gas projects can align with the Paris Agreement is central to the oil and gas producer’s stoush with activists and some proxy advisers.
- Updated
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Exclusive
- Energy
HESTA sides with Woodside on Goyder’s future
But the outspoken superannuation fund, which has criticised the company for not doing enough on emissions reduction, will vote against its climate strategy.
- Kylar Loussikian