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Why fear of billion-dollar lawsuits stops countries phasing out fossil fuels
The Guardian | 7-Mar-2025
Companies can sue governments for closing oilfields and mines – and the risk of huge damages is already stopping countries from passing green laws, ministers say.
keywords: climate , energy , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
The rights of nature become a rallying point against an ascendant mining industry
Inside Climate News | 7-Mar-2025
Communities and ecosystems across the globe face heavy environmental damage from intensifying mining operations. A people’s tribunal probed the Canadian mining industry’s impact on the natural world and the people defending it.
keywords: actions | resistance , Canada , Ecuador , environment , indigenous peoples , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Latin America , mining
Revealed: how Wall Street is making millions betting against green laws
The Guardian | 6-Mar-2025
Fossil-fuel and mining firms have won $92bn of public money from states, with a growing number of cases backed by financial speculators
keywords: energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
Gold Reserve announces filing of international arbitration against the Venezuelan government
PR Newswire | 6-Mar-2025
The arbitration arises from Venezuela’s measures that deprived GR Mining of its rights to, and materially damaged its investment in, the multi-billion-dollar Siembra Minera mining project located in Venezuela.
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , Venezuela
Montero receives final instalment of US$7 million from Tanzania
The Manila Times | 5-Mar-2025
Montero confirms that US$7,000,000 in cash have been received by the Company from Tanzania, which is expected to put an end to the dispute in connection with Tanzania’s expropriation of Montero’s Wigu Hill rare earth element project.
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , Tanzania
Fearing toxic waste, Greenland ended uranium mining. Now, they could be forced to restart - or pay $11bn
The Guardian | 5-Mar-2025
The island is being sued by a mining company over its decision, and faces paying nine times its annual budget in damages if it loses.
keywords: Denmark , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
Kazakhstan revokes $54.5M arbitration award to Canadian junior
Mining.com | 4-Mar-2025
Kazakhstan has overturned a $54.5 million arbitral award previously granted to World Wide Minerals Ltd., a Canadian junior miner, in relation to a terminated uranium processing project.
keywords: Canada , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Kazakhstan , mining
The new Canada-Ecuador trade deal pushes anti-democratic trade policy
CCPA | 27-Feb-2025
Amidst all the chaos brought on by Trump’s tariff threats, Canada’s federal trade minister celebrated a minor win this month: the finalization of a trade agreement with Ecuador.
keywords: Canada , Ecuador , environment , from the movements , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
Gold Reserve announces Portugal court enters judgment against Venezuela confirming arbitration award valued in excess of $1.1 billion
Gold Reserve | 25-Feb-2025
On February 20, 2025, the Lisbon Court of Appeal issued an Order granting Gold Reserve’s application to confirm the award in Portugal.
keywords: Canada , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , Venezuela
Good for mining but bad for democracy? Why Indigenous groups in Ecuador oppose free trade deal with Canada
CBC | 17-Feb-2025
Ecuador’s largest Indigenous organization is vowing to fight a now-concluded free trade agreement with Canada, warning it could encourage human rights abuses in the ecologically and culturally diverse South American country.
keywords: actions | resistance , Canada , Ecuador , environment , human rights , indigenous peoples , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining