UK Members of Parliament (MPs) today (March 11) demand that their own Parliamentary Pension Fund backs a growing investor campaign to force oil giants, BP and Shell, to report on potential investment risks associated with controversial tar sands projects. http://www.responsible-investor.com/home/article/tar/
UNISON’s staff fund co-signed the resolutions to the company AGM and the union’s Capital Stewardship Campaign has been actively seeking members to get their pension funds to join:
http://www.unison.org.uk/capitalstewards/tarsands.asp.
The web page will give you all the information and enable you to get in touch with your pension fund via a unique web service, which will send a letter via email to your pension fund requesting that they vote your shares in favour of the resoultions.
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