Chanticleer columnist James Thomson on what the boardroom fight means for AGL Australia and why big companies around the world are watching closely.
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'Lights would go out' under Cannon-Brookes' 1.5 degree target AGL Energy chairman Patricia McKenzie said the faster closure of coal power plants as demanded by the company’s biggest shareholder Mike Cannon-Brookes is just not possible.
Cannon-Brookes’ big win in AGL proxy war puts heat on board Proxy advisers have backed Mike Cannon-Brookes’ nominees for the AGL board, and opened a potential new line of attack for the billionaire.
Three megatrends collide in Cannon-Brookes, Brookfield’s AGL bid The speed of the energy transition, the rise and rise of private capital and the emergence of billionaire activists are all at play in the offer.

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