MELBOURNE, April 15 (Reuters) - A surprisingly large number of investors in Woodside Petroleum WPL.AX on Thursday were in favour of pushing the company to spell out plans to wind down its oil and gas operations to help limit global warming, based on proxy votes shown at its annual meeting.
A total of 94,676,998 votes, or 19% of proxy votes, were for the resolution, while 388,749,560, or 78.3%, were against the resolution proposed by shareholder activist group Market Forces.
Although the votes were shown, the resolution was not going to be put to a vote as it required shareholders to approve a move to amend the company's constitution first.
Proxy votes were heavily against amending the constitution.