A shareholder-sponsored resolution calling on Royal Dutch Shell to commission a new report on the business assumptions under- pinning its investment in Canada’s oil sands was rejected at the annual general meeting Tuesday, although 11% of investors failed to back the board in its formal opposition. This followed a five-hour meeting staged jointly between The Hague and London that was dominated by discussion of transparency and corporate responsibility regarding controver- sial operations in Nigeria — the subject of most questions — and Canada.
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