CALGARY, April 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Suncor Energy Inc. today held its annual and special meeting of shareholders in Calgary. The meeting was attended by approximately 200 in person, with an additional 250 joining in the webcast. A total of approximately 318 million shares (approximately 69% of outstanding common shares) were represented in person or by proxy.
During business proceedings at the meeting, shareholders approved the following resolutions:
1. The appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Suncor's auditors. 2. The appointment of 11 Board members, including 10 independent directors, with shares represented voting in favour of individual directors as follows: Mel Benson 94.47% Brian Canfield 99.79% Bryan Davies 99.80% Brian Felesky 99.67% John Ferguson 99.78% W. Douglas Ford 99.72% Richard George 99.91% John Huff 99.71% M. Ann McCaig 99.78% Michael O'Brien 99.85% Eira Thomas 98.55% The biographies of Board members and further details about Suncor's corporate governance practices are available on http://www.suncor.com/. 3. The amendment and restatement of our Shareholder Rights Plan, with 93.64% of shares represented voting in favour. For more information and a copy of the plan, see the investor centre on http://www.suncor.com/. 4. The amendment of our Articles to effect a two for one division of our common shares with 99.92% of shares represented voting in favour.
The text of remarks by Rick George, Suncor president and chief executive officer and, Ken Alley, senior vice president and chief financial officer, is available in the newsroom section of http://www.suncor.com/. An archive of the video webcast of the meeting is available at http://www.suncor.com/webcasts.
Suncor Energy Inc. is an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. Suncor's oil sands business, located near Fort McMurray, Alberta, extracts and upgrades oil sands and markets refinery feedstock and diesel fuel, while operations throughout western Canada produce natural gas. Suncor operates a refining and marketing business in Ontario with retail distribution under the Sunoco brand. U.S.A. downstream assets include pipeline and refining operations in Colorado and Wyoming and retail sales in the Denver area under the Phillips 66(R) brand. Suncor's common shares (symbol: SU) are listed on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges.
Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc. is an authorized licensee of the Phillips 66(R) brand and marks in the state of Colorado. Sunoco in Canada is separate and unrelated to Sunoco in the United States, which is owned by Sunoco, Inc. of Philadelphia.
