Canada
The Hill Times | 12-oct-2016
The Liberals’ relative flexibility on investor-state dispute systems and the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, and an expected visit to India by the PM, may help to move talks along.
Romania’s government agrees to a complete lack of transparency in the Rosia Montana arbitration case
Save Roșia Montană | 7-oct-2016
In disregard with official requests, Romania’s government and Gabriel Resources decided to play out their dispute behind closed doors.
Junior Mining | 30-sep-2016
Gabriel Resources announces an update in relation to its ongoing bilateral investment treaty arbitration against Romania proceeding under the auspices of the World Bank’s ICSID.
Friends of the Earth Canada | 30-sep-2016
Some of Canada’s largest environmental, labor and civil society organizations have now joined the growing international community demanding that Chevron clean up its toxic waste in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
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Canada ,
différends investisseurs-état | ISDS,
énergie ,
Équateur ,
États-Unis d’Amérique
Inf’OGM | 30-sep-2016
S’il est adopté, le Ceta aboutira à une consolidation des droits de propriété industrielle dont le Certificat d’obtention végétale et le brevet qui concernent directement les semences.
Mots-clés:
biodiversité | biopiratérie ,
Canada ,
différends investisseurs-état | ISDS,
France ,
OGM ,
propriété intellectuelle ,
réglementation ,
UE
Ecelaw | 29-sep-2016
Federal Court of Canada rejects Bilcon’s application to stay proceedings, denying the Delaware company an early pay day.
Mots-clés:
Canada ,
différends investisseurs-état | ISDS,
environnement,
États-Unis d’Amérique ,
mines
The Globe and Mail | 29-sep-2016
The latest salvo in a marathon multibillion-dollar legal battle between global energy giant Chevron Corp. and a group of Ecuadorean residents over environmental damage has begun in a Toronto court.
Mots-clés:
Canada ,
différends investisseurs-état | ISDS,
énergie ,
Équateur ,
États-Unis d’Amérique
Live Mint | 28-sep-2016
On Canada’s insistance, India is expected to sign a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) with Canada based on an old text, not its new model BIT. The old text contains contentious provisions such as the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism.
Global Labour Column | 28-sep-2016
For decades, labour has been fighting purely defensive battles against the neo-liberal trade and investment agenda ; we lack an agenda of our own. Lost ground will not be reclaimed on what is fundamentally hostile territory, argues Peter Rossmann of the IUF.
TNI | 23-sep-2016
How CETA’s investor protection rules could result in a boom of investor claims against Canada and the EU.
