Canadian Natural Resources Limited : Reports Voting Results at Annual General Meeting
May 10, 2017 at 05:01 pm EDT
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CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - May 10, 2017) - Canadian Natural (TSX:CNQ)(NYSE:CNQ) held its Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders on May 4, 2017. The result of the vote by shareholders for each resolution is reported below.
1. The election of the following nominees as directors of the Corporation for the ensuing year or until their successors are elected or appointed.
Votes For
Votes Withheld
Catherine M. Best
804,831,363
96.57%
28,548,320
3.43%
N. Murray Edwards
818,961,937
98.27%
14,419,842
1.73%
Timothy W. Faithfull
830,931,096
99.71%
2,450,683
0.29%
Honourable Gary A. Filmon
829,006,486
99.47%
4,375,293
0.53%
Christopher L. Fong
832,492,003
99.89%
889,776
0.11%
Ambassador Gordon D. Giffin
817,012,951
98.04%
16,368,828
1.96%
Wilfred A. Gobert
815,426,413
97.85%
17,955,366
2.15%
Steve W. Laut
827,769,478
99.33%
5,612,301
0.67%
Honourable Frank J. McKenna
812,608,680
97.51%
20,773,099
2.49%
David A. Tuer
821,512,604
98.58%
11,869,175
1.42%
Annette M. Verschuren
813,655,182
97.63%
19,726,597
2.37%
Votes For
Votes Withheld
2. The appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Corporation for the ensuing year and to authorize the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors to fix their remuneration.
832,320,723
98.12%
15,934,432
1.88%
Votes For
Votes Against
3. The Corporation's approach to executive compensation.
794,737,084
95.36%
38,644,393
4.64%
Canadian Natural is a senior oil and natural gas production company, with continuing operations in its core areas located in Western Canada, the U.K. portion of the North Sea and Offshore Africa.
Certain information regarding the Company contained herein may constitute forward-looking statements under applicable securities laws. Such statements are subject to known or unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements. Refer to our website for complete forward-looking statements www.cnrl.com
Canadian Natural Resources Limited is a Canada-based independent crude oil and natural gas exploration, development and production company. The Company's segments include exploration and production, oil sands mining and upgrading, and midstream and refining. The exploration and production segment is focused on North America, specifically in Western Canada; the United Kingdom portion of the North Sea, and Cote d'Ivoire and South Africa in Offshore Africa. The oil sands mining and upgrading segment produces synthetic crude oil through bitumen mining and upgrading operations at Horizon Oil Sands and through its direct and indirect interest in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project. Within Western Canada in the midstream and refining segment, the Company maintains certain activities that include pipeline operations, an electricity co-generation system and an investment in the Northwest Redwater Partnership, a general partnership formed to upgrade and refine bitumen in the Province of Alberta.