AGM Roundup

Purchasing shares in companies with dodgy environmental dealings and then attending their Annual General Meetings is an increasingly used technique to exert pressure to stop pointless construction projects. There have been at least 4 recent major AGM actions. Costain, builders of the Cardiff Bay Barrage and bidding for the Newbury bypass were prepared for trouble and had an army of Group 4 security ready. As at the Tarmac AGM, environmental matters were placed on the agenda and the activists made sure that this dominated both meetings. Difficult questions were asked that the board failed to answer. Tarmac then set up an environmental advisory board...?!? The Amec (builders of the M65) board refused to answer any more questions after the environment began to dominate their AGM. Some of the 40 activists present continued to ask questions on their ethical and environmental policies before being physically ejected from the meeting which had to be stopped. A least one person was assaulted by a share holder. LAMB (Lloyds And Midland Boycott) went to the Midland AGM.