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Lone Pine déboutée, le CQDE soulagé
CQDE | 6-Dec-2022
Le Centre québécois du droit de l’environnement est ravi que le tribunal d’arbitrage de l’ALÉNA ait décidé, le 21 novembre 2022, de rejeter la réclamation d’environ 150 millions $ de l’entreprise américaine Lone Pine Resources inc.
keywords: Canada , energy , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , NAFTA | USMCA , US
Lone Pine’s claim is dismissed… to the CQDE’s relief
CQDE | 6-Dec-2022
The Centre québécois du droit de l’environnement is delighted that an ICSID Arbitral Tribunal decided, on November 21, 2022, to reject the claim for approximately $150 million by the American company Lone Pine Resources Inc.
keywords: Canada , energy , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , NAFTA | USMCA , US
ISDS en Colombia: un boom de demandas de inversores extranjeros
ISDS América Latina | 24-Nov-2022
En 2018, Colombia fue el país más demandado ante tribunales de arbitraje internacional por parte de inversores extranjeros. Desde el principio del nuevo milenio, los gobiernos de Álvaro Uribe y Juan Manuel Santos apuraron la firma de tratados bilaterales de inversión y de libre comercio sin ningún tipo de debate público ni estudio de impacto medioambiental o social.
keywords: Colombia , energy , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
ECT modernisation perspectives: unpacking the impact of the revised ECT text on dispute resolution
Kluwer Arbitration Blog | 7-Nov-2022
This article focuses on the implications of the revised text for dispute resolution under the ECT. We address the environmental focus of the anticipated reforms and conciliation of State-to-State disputes relating to sustainable development and climate change.
keywords: climate , ECT , energy , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS
UK independent hit by $190 million annulment claim
Upstream | 2-Nov-2022
UK-based Rockhopper Exploration has been dealt a blow in its protracted legal battle with Italy with the European nation applying to the ICSID to annul the €190 million payment it was ordered to make.
keywords: energy , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Italy
Slovenia ‘very likely’ to withdraw from Energy Charter Treaty
Euractiv | 26-Oct-2022
Slovenia will follow the lead of countries such as the Netherlands, Spain and France and very likely withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty, Infrastructure Minister Bojan Kumer announced.
keywords: climate , energy , environment , EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Slovenia
Tratados de Libre Comercio: México. Cómo salir de la sumisión corporativa
GRAIN | 17-Oct-2022
Hemos producido un relato/estudio detallado del TLCAN y su eterna ola de tratados y acuerdos, sus efectos y las herramientas que nos permitan analizar y resistir los impactos de los TLC.
keywords: actions | resistance , agriculture | farmers | food , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Mexico , NAFTA | USMCA
Free trade agreements: Mexico. How to get out of corporate submission?
GRAIN | 17-Oct-2022
We have produced a detailed study/story of NAFTA, with its eternal wake of treatises and agreements, its effects, and the tools to analyse and organise resistance against the impacts of FTAs.
keywords: actions | resistance , agriculture | farmers | food , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Mexico , NAFTA | USMCA
España anuncia, por fin, su salida del Tratado de la Carta de la Energía
Ecologistas en Acción | 14-Oct-2022
La ministra para la Transición Ecológica, Teresa Ribera, comunicó a Político que España ha iniciado el proceso de salida del Tratado de la Carta de la Energía (TCE).
keywords: ECT , energy , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Spain
UK firms using legal muscle to facilitate human rights and climate abuses – report
The Guardian | 12-Oct-2022
Transform Trade charity says British-based companies are among main bringers of cases based on bilateral investment treaties.
keywords: climate , environment , human rights , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , UK