Edgar Filing: BUCKEYE PARTNERS, L.P.

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Important Notice of Availability of Proxy Materials for the Annual Meeting of Limited Partners of

BUCKEYE PARTNERS, L.P.

To Be Held On:

June 5, 2018 at 9:00 a.m.

DoubleTree Hotel, 6 Greenway Plaza, Houston, Texas 77046

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	●	Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders
	●	Proxy Statement
	●	Form of Electronic Proxy Card
	●	Annual Report on Form 10-K

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1.	The election of three Class II directors to serve on our general partner’s board of directors until our 2021 annual meeting of limited partners.		2.	The approval of an amendment of Buckeye Partners, L.P.’s partnership agreement to remove provisions of the partnership agreement that prevent the general partner from causing Buckeye Partners, L.P. to issue any class or series of limited partnership interests having preferences or other special or senior rights over the LP Units without the prior approval of unitholders holding an aggregate of at least two-thirds of the outstanding LP Units.
	NOMINEES:
		Pieter Bakker Barbara M. Baumann	3.	The ratification of the selection of Deloitte & Touche LLP as Buckeye Partners, L.P.’s independent registered public accountants for 2018.
		Mark C. McKinley
			4.	The approval, in an advisory vote, of the compensation of Buckeye’s named executive officers as described in our proxy statement pursuant to Item 402 of Regulation S-K.

			In their discretion, the proxies are authorized to vote upon such other business as may properly come before the Annual Meeting.

			THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS A VOTE “FOR” ALL THE NOMINEES LISTED AND “FOR” PROPOSALS 2, 3, AND 4.





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