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Australia’s Port of Darwin move risks ISDS arbitration with China
East India Forum | 20-May-2025
The re-elected Australian Labor government plans to reclaim China’s 99-year lease over the Port of Darwin. This risks triggering an international arbitration claim by the Chinese-owned Landbridge Group.
keywords: Australia , China , investor-state disputes | ISDS , services
Arranca el arbitraje en el que Berkeley reclama a España casi 1.000 millones por la paralización de la mina de uranio de Salamanca
La Razón | 13-May-2025
El 8 de mayo se celebró la primera sesión entre las partes a través de una conferencia, según figura en el registro Centro Internacional de Arreglo de Diferencias relativas a Inversiones (Ciadi) del Grupo Banco Mundial, que será el encargado de dirimir la disputa.
keywords: Australia , ECT , ICSID , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , Spain
The climate crisis & the threat of investment agreements
Ngā Toki Whakarururanga | 2-May-2025
Aussie mining billionaire sues Australia for A$420 billion... Yes, this could happen in Aotearoa!!!
keywords: Australia , climate , environment , from the movements , indigenous peoples , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , New Zealand
New AFTINET explainer: why ISDS is a threat to climate action
AFTINET | 15-Jan-2025
This explainer sheds light on how Clive Palmer is using Investor-State Dispute Settlement provisions in trade agreements to claim up to $420 billion from the Australian government.
keywords: Australia , climate , from the movements , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Sarama réclame 115 millions $ au Burkina Faso pour retrait de permis minier
Ecofin | 13-Dec-2024
Le différend entre Sarama et le Burkina Faso a commencé en 2023 avec le retrait d’un permis d’exploration contrôlé depuis 12 ans par la société canadienne.
keywords: Australia , Burkina Faso , Canada , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
Sarama Resources submits request for arbitration against Burkina Faso
Sarama | 13-Dec-2024
Formal commencement of international arbitration proceedings for significant damages claim.
keywords: Australia , Burkina Faso , Canada , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
Australian mining firm trumps Poland in arbitration
iclg | 9-Oct-2024
Invoking the Australia-Poland bilateral investment treaty, together with the Energy Charter Treaty, Green X has been awarded hundreds of millions of dollars over a thwarted mining project.
keywords: Australia , ECT , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , Poland
Clive Palmer’s $300bn claim ‘absurd’, says solicitor-general
The Australian | 17-Sep-2024
The solicitor-general has pilloried Clive Palmer’s $300bn legal claim against Australia as weak, absurd and demonstrably in­adequate.
keywords: Australia , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
Tanzania agrees to pay Indiana Resources Sh. 237 Billion over ICSID disputes
The Chanzo | 29-Jul-2024
Tanzania and an Australian-based company Indiana Resources Limited have settled for USD 90 million.
keywords: Australia , ICSID , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , Tanzania
Australian legal experts call for swift removal of ISDS
AFTINET | 12-Jul-2024
62 Australian lawyers and legal scholars have issued an open letter urging the Australian government to swiftly implement its policy of excluding Investor-State Dispute Settlement provisions from current and future trade and investment agreements.
keywords: Australia , from the movements , investor-state disputes | ISDS