Network for Justice in Global Investment

A treaty too many

leny — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:23:05 +0000

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

Opinion: Little lawsuit, big implications for future of fracking projects

leny — Sat, 11 May 2013 19:28:17 +0000

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

TPP Days of Action Coming to Your Community

leny — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:48:10 +0000

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

Mining for Profits in International Tribunals – Updated

leny — Fri, 10 May 2013 19:24:49 +0000

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

VIDEO: Maude Barlow on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

leny — Thu, 09 May 2013 21:58:06 +0000

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

Time to End the Free Trade Sellout

leny — Thu, 09 May 2013 21:51:43 +0000

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

Statement of social movements and civil society organisations regarding the proposals of the I Ministerial Conference of Latin American States affected by the interests of transnationals

leny — Thu, 09 May 2013 21:15:32 +0000

On 22 April, government representatives from Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, St. Vincent and Grenadine, Venezuela, Argentina, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico met in Guayaquil (Ecuador) for the 1st Ministerial Meeting of the Latin American States affected by transnational interests. A key result of the meeting was the signing of a Declaration [http://cancilleria.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/22abr_declaracion_transnacionales_eng.pdf], where they lay out concrete proposals to move forward

Coup d’Etat to Trade Seen in Billionaire Toxic Lead Fight

leny — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:25:43 +0000

Source: Bloomberg.com

May 9, 2013

By Andrew Martin

See the video by clicking here

Across the river from Belinda Elida Barja’s two-room apartment, the lead and zinc smelters of Doe Run Peru spread smoke and dust in the mountain town of La Oroya.

Her 9-year-old son Kenyi has headaches, memory loss, stomach ailments and difficulty concentrating, Barja said. The lead in his blood

International mission to investigate high-stakes mining conflict in El Salvador

leny — Tue, 07 May 2013 18:13:16 +0000

Source: Canadians.org

MEDIA RELEASE For Immediate Release May 7, 2013

From May 9-13, an international delegation of NGO representatives, academics, journalists and grassroots activists from a dozen countries spanning four continents will be in El Salvador to investigate a high-stakes conflict between the small state and powerful multinational mining companies.

The fact-finding mission will enable the international community to bear witness to the struggle

Common structures of investment law in an age of increasingly complex treaty-making

leny — Mon, 06 May 2013 18:20:01 +0000

Source: Vcc.columbia.edu

Columbia FDI Perspectives

Perspectives on topical foreign direct investment issues by the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment

No. 94, May 6, 2013 Editor-in-Chief: Karl P. Sauvant (Karl.Sauvant@law.columbia.edu) Managing Editor: Jennifer Reimer (jreimer01@gmail.com)

Common structures of investment law in an age of increasingly complex treaty-making

Stephan Schill and Marc Jacob*

Although international investment agreements (IIAs)

Report from Latin America and Caribbean governments meeting on investment regime, in Guayaquil, Ecuador

leny — Mon, 06 May 2013 17:15:31 +0000

By Cecilia Olivet – Transnational Institute / April, 2013 / On 22 April, government representatives from Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, St. Vincent and Grenadine, Venezuela, Argentina, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico met in Guayaquil (Ecuador) for the 1st Ministerial Meeting of the Latin American States affected by transnational interests.

EU-Canada trade agreement threatens fracking bans

leny — Mon, 06 May 2013 17:14:06 +0000

Corporate Europe Observatory, the Council of Canadians and the Transnational Institute / Source: Corporateeurope.org / May 6, 2013 / PRESS RELEASE. The proposed Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the European Union (EU) and Canada would grant energy companies far-reaching rights to challenge bans and regulations of environmentally damaging shale gas development (fracking), a new briefing by Corporate Europe Observatory, The Council of Canadians and the Transnational Institute shows.