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You should look a little deeper. Ceres is about helping business make decisions, and they are recognized as a good source of information from the business community, and their GRI report is considered one of the best. Nothing i this report looks incorrect, or manipulated.

http://www.ceres.org/resources...

Yes, we all should be concerned about bias, and yes you raise a red flag, but looking deeper they have been pretty good with numbers.

Unlike, say, Greenpeace,

"The report doesn't say that. What it says is that fracking uses lots of water and most fracking operations are taking in areas that are experiencing water shortages and/or drought. "
So? what does their report say. The fact the Hugh Pickens is trying to manipulate it, or doesn't understand it is not Ceres fault.

Ceres mobilizes a powerful network of investors, companies and public interest groups to accelerate and expand the adoption of sustainable business practices and solutions to build a healthy global economy.

Our mission is to mobilize investor and business leadership to build a thriving, sustainable global economy.

They are a self-professed environmental activist organization. That puts the results of their self-done study in question.

The major tip-off that something wasn't right was the title of this submission. It implies that fracking is causing water shortages by destroying watershead via draining. The report doesn't say that. What it says is that fracking uses lots of water and most fracking operations are taking in areas that are experiencing water shortages and/or drought.

The rest of the article is based on information from another journalistic source that is known to be biased.

At the annual meeting, shareholders can ask questions. Sure, if you've only got a few votes, you'll be brushed off - but embarrassing answers have a tendency to wind up on blogs, and in reports by special interest groups.

Of course, you can go one better, and phone up your pension fund today, and ask about their investment policies, their exclusionary list, their set of standards for Corporate social responsibility. When pension funds, who often own percentage-stakes in companies, speak up - or worse, band together - corporations tend to sit up. Is your pension fund a member of ceres? The same goes for mutual funds, you can influence their buying and voting policies - or simply buy into another fund. In Europe, several of the world's largest pension funds have socially aware investment policies, examining company's conduct with respect to environment, workers' rights, arms trade, etc.

If you own stock yourself, make sure you get proxy ballots. Perhaps join an investor coalition, like ICCR. They've only been at this for, like, 35 years.

In fact, groups like ICCR and CERES are calling for shareholder rights to be preserved, precisely because they are effectively using those rights. Which may at times inconvenience boards of directors (oh dear, we wouldn't want million dollar income CxOs be inconvenienced now, would we? They might have to work to earn a living).

hmmm, how about people who die from heat stroke during the summer, or asthmatics having an attack due to smog, or i don't know people who die in a tornado or hurricane that is more intense due to it being 1 degree hotter. Do you work for Exxon? You might as well :( Stuff: Exxon Still Funding Climate Change Deniers $900 BILLION OF INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS PRESSURE EXXON MOBIL ON GLOBAL WARMING Scientists' Report Documents ExxonMobil's Tobacco-like Disinformation Campaign on Global Warming Science EarthTalk: Exxon/Mobil's Climate Change Contrarions Report: ExxonMobil Spends Millions Funding Global Warming Skeptics ExxonSecrets