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Source: The Democracy Center May, 2013 A new paper from the Democracy Center sheds an urgent public light on the system of international investment rules and arbitration tribunals that is being used by corporations to undermine citizen and government action on a range of urgent social and environmental issues. Groups all across the world are grappling with the challenge of the 21st century: how to meet Source: Alternet.org May 23, 2013 By Thomas Mc Donagh Citizens have won important policy victories only to be undermined by corporations using the growing web of international investment rules and arbitration courts. In 2009, when the government of El Salvador refused to issue an environmental permit to a Canadian mining corporation, community activists in Las Cabañas rejoiced. For years they had been fighting a Source: Stopesmining.org May 22, 2013 Fact finding delegation on mining and water in El Salvador releases preliminary report. . From May 10-13 2013, an international delegation from 12 countries representing 22 human rights, social justice and environmental non-profit organizations and advocates, along with academics, journalists, artists and grassroots activists, carried out a three day tour of El Salvador to examine experiences with gold mining Source: Commonfrontiers.ca May 21, 2013 By Raul Burbano Program Director – Common Frontiers From May 10th to the 12th close to 50 delegates representing 22 different organizations from four continents gathered in San Salvador to take part in the first ever international fact finding mission around the impacts of metallic mining. It was organized by the International Allies Against Mining in El Salvador in Source: Canadians.org May, 2013 When the people of Quebec spoke out against fracking, the provincial government listened. Quebec put a moratorium on the controversial and dangerous method for extracting hard-to-reach natural gas until the environmental impacts could be studied. Fracking uses enormous amounts of water and sand, mixed with toxic chemicals, which are forced into the ground at high pressure to fracture shale rock Source: Rabble.ca May 17, 2013 By Stuart Trew U.S. energy giant Chevron (profits $26.2 billion USD) is encouraging the United States to pursue a strong NAFTA-like investment chapter and investor-state dispute settlement process in the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the European Union. The company, which attracted global outrage for using these kinds of rules to try to avoid paying an Source: Downtoearth.org.in May 15, 2013 By Latha Jishnu India is learning that there is a heavy price to be paid for the large number of bilateral investment treaties, or BITs, it has signed in the hope of attracting foreign investment. In recent months, a slew of global investors upset with policy changes made by the government are seeking huge compensation from India in international Source: Edmontonjournal.com May 10, 2013 By Emma Lui and Stuart Trew, Edmonton Journal A worker switches well heads at a natural gas hydraulic fracturing operation. Communities have a responsibility to protect themselves and a right to say no to fracking, says the Council of Canadians. Photograph by: Brennan Linsley , AP The annual meeting of a small, local oil and gas company Source: Citizenstrade.org This month, people on four continents are taking coordinated action in their communities to shine a light on the disastrous potential consequences of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which enters one of its final rounds of negotiations in Lima, Peru next week. Educational events about the TPP taking place in the United States this Saturday include the following: Minneapolis, MN TPP Teach-in Source: Institute for Policy Studies Released May 9, 2013 By Sarah Anderson and Manuel Perez-Rocha How transnational corporations use trade and investment treaties as powerful tools in disputes over oil, mining, and gas. / Como las empresas mineras transnacionales utilizan las reglas de los acuerdos de inversión y de comercio como poderosos instrumentos a su favor en las disputas por el petróleo, la minería Source: Canadians.org The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a broad trans-pacific trade and investment pact. In Canada, concerns with the TPP include: how it could lead to the dismantling of Canada’s important supply management regimes for dairy, poultry and egg production; the race-to-the-bottom potential in a proposed regulatory harmonization chapter; extreme intellectual-property protections for big drug companies that would limit access to life-saving medicines; investor-state Source: Huffingtonpost.com May 9, 2013 Alan Grayson / U.S. Congressman for Florida’s 9th District Until Friday, you have the chance to make your voice heard about a pending massive corporate giveaway now being promoted by the U.S. Trade Representative. It’s a chance that you should take. The agreement the trade representative is seeking comments on is the “Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.” Even the |
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