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Romania wins legal battle against a Canadian miner over failed plans to open a gold mine
ABC News | 11-Mar-2024
The Romanian government has won a years long legal dispute with a Canadian mining company seeking damages over failed plans to open a gold and silver mine in the Eastern European country.
keywords: Canada , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , Romania
Trade deal could put corporate profits over people, say groups
Canada’s National Observer | 5-Mar-2024
A proposed Canada-Ecuador free trade agreement could put corporate interests above citizens’ rights, say several concerned organizations.
keywords: Canada , Ecuador , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
First Quantum poursuit l’arbitrage à la suite de la fermeture de sa mine au Panamá
La Presse | 4-Mar-2024
Une société minière dont le siège social est au Canada réclame au moins 20 milliards par voie d’arbitrage international à la suite de la fermeture de sa mine de cuivre au Panamá.
keywords: Canada , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , Panama
First Quantum Seeks $20 Billion From Panama in Free Trade Case
Yahoo Finance | 21-Feb-2024
First Quantum Minerals Ltd. is seeking $20 billion from Panama in a free trade arbitration case after the Central American nation shut down the company’s flagship copper mine late last year.
keywords: Canada , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , Panama
‘Litigation terrorism’: the obscure tool that corporations are using against green laws
The Guardian | 13-Feb-2024
Investor-State Dispute Settlements are legal, huge and often hush-hush – and fossil fuel firms and others are using them to hold the planet to ransom.
keywords: climate , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Mexico , mining
Tanzania’s attempt to strike out Indiana’s compensation fails to score
Stockhead | 12-Feb-2024
Indiana Resources is closer to recovering its historical sunk investment for the unlawful expropriation of the Ntaka Hill nickel sulphide project after the ICSID struck out most of Tanzania’s grounds for requesting the annulment of the award.
keywords: Australia , ICSID , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , natural resources , Tanzania
How a US mining firm sued Mexico for billions – for trying to protect its own seabed
The Guardian | 1-Feb-2024
Local fishers helped halt underwater mining off Baja California’s coast in 2018. But then an obscure international legal process was put into motion.
keywords: actions | resistance , environment , fisheries | fisherfolk , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Mexico , mining , NAFTA | USMCA , US
Agreed amendment to the revised SPA concerning the sale of IM Minerals
Investegate | 31-Jan-2024
AAG have confirmed they have submitted the claim by way of a request for arbitration to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , Mozambique
Their mines ruined communities. Now they want compensation
Truthdig | 23-Jan-2024
In Colombia, lawsuits by foreign corporations are obstructing a fossil fuel phase-out at the expense of the indigenous Wayúu community.
keywords: Colombia , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
El peor año en materia de demandas corporativas
Argentina Mejor sin TLC | 12-Jan-2024
El 2023 fue el año más virulento en cuanto a demandas inversor-Estado (ISDS) contra países de América Latina y el Caribe, con más de 30 demandas en total. A su vez, la región fue la más demandada a nivel global y el país que más litigios enfrentó fue México.
keywords: CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Latin America , mining , NAFTA | USMCA