This is an outfit that does not deal with the Retail Investor and only Hedge Funds and Institutional boys. There is no way on earth they would do any kind of report on Noront without being asked to and paid for doing so. What a hatchet job!

This is from their own statement of principles.

• All aspects of our research, and all proxy voting policies and vote recommendations, are based on fair, thorough, independent, and objective analysis, without regard to any economic or other inappropriate pressure.

Now just maybe we all should email these people to ask what they think 'fair' 'thorough' 'independant and 'objective' really means? http://www.riskmetrics.com/contact

If this is such a 'fair' recommendation then lets see the full analysis behind it because you know it was released to whoever paid for this.