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A $250M hedge fund with 0.02% of Exxon placed three directors on the board on May 26, 2021. BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street voted with the activist. The canonical ESG case.
A 60-minute Citation Share audit framework built for energy companies — one operator, five engines, twelve prompts, four findings that recur across every energy major audit, and the three highest-leverage moves to fund next.
From the 2019 Saudi Aramco drone strikes to the 2022 Russia-Ukraine spike, every energy shock is a communications test. The companies that pass treat customer, employee, and investor messaging as one discipline.