In May Vancouver-based SAS filed for arbitration against Bolivia over the cancellation of mineral tenements / By Henry Lazenby / Source: M.miningweekly.com / May 28, 2013
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Source: Foei.org WASHINGTON (DC), May 27, 2013 – Immediately following the latest round of Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations in Lima, Peru [1] Friends of the Earth International announced its support for a statement signed by 130 civil society organisations criticizing the International Investment Agreements. The statement [2] calls for an alternative legal framework for international economic relations. Its signatories welcomed the radical steps announced By Bill Waren / Source: Foe.org / May. 27, 2013 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: 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 By Stuart Trew / Source: Rabble.ca / May 17, 2013 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. By Latha Jishnu / Source: Downtoearth.org.in / May 15, 2013 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 |
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We provide this documentation from the ICSID web page for a critical analysis. It includes the list of cases that this tribunal has filed and managed historically and until 2009.
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