environnement
Public Citizen | 28-déc-2012
U.S.-based Renco Group Inc. is trying to use the U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to evade justice.
| 16-nov-2012
A US-incorporated energy firm, Lone Pine Resources Inc., is taking on Quebec’s stand against fracking, saying it violates the North American free-trade agreement and demanding more than $250-million in compensation.
Reuters | 4-jui-2012
Canadian company Pacific Rim can move forward under El Salvador law with a case against that country’s government for blocking a gold mining project, but cannot file suit under a regional trade agreement, a World Bank arbitration panel ruled.
IISD | 13-avr-2012
The arbitral tribunal in Chevron v. Ecuador has taken a series of steps in recent months suggesting that it has a broad view of its authority.
Mots-clés:
énergie ,
environnement,
Équateur ,
États-Unis d’Amérique ,
litiges investisseurs-état | ISDS
Policymic | 29-mar-2012
Ecuadorian communities learned from the way that Chevron’s operations flouted environmental law in the 1990’s, that once entrusted to foreign businesses their natural resources are usually squandered.
Amazon Defense Coalition | 1er-fév-2012
On February 11, Chevron will ask a panel of three private lawyers named as "arbitrators" under the BIT to nullify the entire nine-year Ecuadorian court process that recently found the company liable for $18 billion in clean-up costs.
| 28-jui-2011
Pacific Rim is suing the Salvadoran government in an international investment court, one of scores of cases in recent years in which frustrated oil, gas and mining investors, using provisions of trade agreements, have sought to recoup losses from mostly developing countries.
Mots-clés:
CAFTA ,
Canada ,
environnement,
États-Unis d’Amérique ,
investissement | TBI ,
litiges investisseurs-état | ISDS,
mines ,
Salvador
| 27-jui-2011
Canada’s Bear Creek Mining Corp. is threatening a legal challenge
against Peru after its mining rights were revoked in a move that raises
the risk for other resource companies doing business in the
mineral-blessed South American country.
Mots-clés:
actions | résistance ,
Canada ,
environnement,
investissement | TBI ,
litiges investisseurs-état | ISDS,
mines ,
Pérou
| 11-aoû-2010
In a decision with implications for the national sovereignty of member states under US trade pacts, a World Bank tribunal has approved a Canadian mining company’s controversial lawsuit against the government of El Salvador.
Mots-clés:
CAFTA ,
Canada ,
CIRDI ,
environnement,
États-Unis d’Amérique ,
intérêts corporatifs ,
investissement | TBI ,
litiges investisseurs-état | ISDS,
mines ,
Salvador
Change.org | 20-avr-2010
Litigation over the ecological disaster that is Lago Agrio has produced a decades-long narrative that rivals Finnegans Wake in complexity.
Mots-clés:
énergie ,
environnement,
Équateur ,
États-Unis d’Amérique ,
litiges investisseurs-état | ISDS
