{"id":1936958,"date":"2023-05-24T10:40:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T14:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/go-to-hell-shell-climate-activists-try-to-storm-stage-at-oil-giants-annual-meeting\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T10:43:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T14:43:50","slug":"go-to-hell-shell-climate-activists-try-to-storm-stage-at-oil-giants-annual-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/go-to-hell-shell-climate-activists-try-to-storm-stage-at-oil-giants-annual-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate activists attempt to disrupt Shell&#8217;s annual meeting with the chant &#8220;Go To Hell, Shell.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgo-to-hell-shell-climate-activists-try-to-storm-stage-at-oil-giants-annual-meeting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1936958&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Climate Activists Attempt to Disrupt Shell Shareholder Meeting<\/h2>\n<p>Climate activists in London are taking their fight to the doorstep of Shell, one of the world&#8217;s largest oil and gas companies. The activists attempted to rush the stage at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-microsoft-board-wanted-bill-gates-out-over-alleged-years-long-affair-with-employee-report\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Microsoft Board Wanted Bill Gates Out Over Alleged Years-Long Affair With Employee: Report\">annual shareholder meeting<\/a>, accusing the company of contributing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-change-hysteria\/\" title=\"Climate Change Hysteria\">rising global temperatures<\/a>. Fossil Free London posted footage of the chaotic scene, showing protesters chanting &#8220;Go to hell, Shell&#8221; and disrupting the meeting for over an hour.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE: Climate protesters attempt to storm the stage of Shell AGM!!!<\/p>\n<p>As Shell continues to cause climate chaos, we will continue to do everything in our power to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ShutDownShell?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ShutDownShell<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yl2tJlZXUD\">pic.twitter.com\/yl2tJlZXUD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fossil Free London (@fossilfreeLDN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fossilfreeLDN\/status\/1660952456291921920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite Shell&#8217;s commitment to net zero emissions by 2050, the activists accused the company of not being interested in constructive engagement. The disruption was part of a larger movement to pressure companies to adopt various climate resolutions. Follow This, a network of green shareholders, introduced a measure that would have decreased emissions by 2030 but failed to gain enough support.<\/p>\n<h3>ESG Movement Faces Criticism<\/h3>\n<p>The environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) movement, which calls for the use of corporate power to promote social agendas, has faced criticism for distracting from profit maximization. Shareholders of investment and insurance conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway recently rejected similar climate proposals at an annual meeting. ESG funds also saw considerable losses amid last year&#8217;s underperformance among technology firms and overperformance among energy companies.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents of a managed transition toward renewable energy have pointed out that increased carbon emissions from developing countries are outpacing emissions declines in the West. China, responsible for 26.1% of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinas-carbon-emissions-soar-as-biden-unveils-crackdown-on-american-power-plants\/\" title=\"China's carbon emissions rise while Biden announces crackdown on US power plants.\">worldwide greenhouse gas emissions<\/a>, has surpassed the United States and the European Union in emissions production.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text\">\n<div class=\"c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text\" data-qa=\"message-text\">\n<div class=\"p-block_kit_renderer\" data-qa=\"block-kit-renderer\">\n<div class=\"p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first\">\n<div class=\"p-rich_text_block\" dir=\"auto\">\n<div class=\"p-rich_text_section\"><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link c-link--focus-visible\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-14224\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate activists disrupted Shell&#8217;s annual shareholder meeting in London, accusing the oil and gas giant of contributing to global warming. Fossil Free London shared footage of protesters attempting to rush the stage, but security prevented them from doing so. Around 100 people were involved in the demonstration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1936959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4091,3888,7900,17698,4321,17614,8201,4479,4470,7030,5248],"class_list":["post-1936958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-activists","tag-annual","tag-attempt","tag-chant","tag-climate","tag-disrupt","tag-go","tag-hell","tag-meeting","tag-shell","tag-shells"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1936959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}