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Thursday, April 14, 2011

BP faces angry oil spill protesters at AGM, (BP)

BP's (BP.L) annual shareholder meeting was disrupted by campaigners protesting against the oil giant's role in the Gulf of Mexico spill, while investors registered their disapproval with big votes against directors. A group of five campaigners from the Gulf, one of whom had covered themselves in a black oil-like substance, were refused entry to the meeting on Thursday by security guards and police, as a brass band -- part of another protest involving BP workers -- played in the background. "They will not let me in," said Diane Wilson, the late middle-aged woman who was photographed smeared in oil at a congressional hearing where BP's former chief executive Tony Hayward testified last June. "I came to talk about what is going on in the Gulf," she said.

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