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Pipeline Keystone XL : TransCanada poursuit les États-Unis
Le Devoir | 7-Jan-2016
La multinationale des énergies fossiles a annoncé qu’elle réclame plus de 15 milliards de dollars au gouvernement américain, en raison du rejet de son projet de pipeline Keystone XL.
keywords: Canada , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , NAFTA | USMCA , US
Keystone XL rejection leads TransCanada to sue Obama administration
CBC | 7-Jan-2016
Calgary-based company alleges U.S. president exceeded his constitutional powers
keywords: Canada , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , NAFTA | USMCA , US
Resolute Forest Products sues for $70M over Port Hawkesbury aid
CBC | 31-Dec-2015
NAFTA action comes after closure of Laurentide mill blamed on Nova Scotian mill.
keywords: Canada , investor-state disputes | ISDS , NAFTA | USMCA
What a new NAFTA complaint can tell us about the TPP
AFL-CIO | 16-Nov-2015
A coalition of U.S. and Mexican labor and civil society groups are taking an unprecedented legal approach to protect workers’ rights that will test the strength of labor protections in international trade agreements.
keywords: CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS , labour | workers’ rights , NAFTA | USMCA
NAFTA panel could rule on investor-state challenge targeting Ontario this month
Rabble | 22-Oct-2015
Billionaire T. Boone Pickens is suing Canada through the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) for $700 million in future lost profit.
keywords: Canada , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , NAFTA | USMCA
Lessons from NAFTA for the TPP
SUNS | 21-Oct-2015
There are many lessons from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that are relevant to the current debate over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
keywords: Canada , CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Mexico , NAFTA | USMCA , US
Corporate rights in trade agreements: Attacking the environment and community values
Sierra Club | 18-Oct-2015
A private trade tribunal ruled that Canada violated rules in NAFTA because of an environmental impact assessment that led Canada to reject a company’s controversial mining project from moving forward in an important cultural and ecological area in Nova Scotia.
keywords: Canada , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , NAFTA | USMCA , US
Legendary Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens is suing Ontario for $700 million over wind power
Financial Post | 16-Oct-2015
Pickens is using his rights under the North American Free Trade Agreement to bring claims against the Canadian province of Ontario.
keywords: Canada , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , NAFTA | USMCA , US
Murray Rankin v. Canada
Focus Online | 30-Sep-2015
Rankin acted on behalf of an American mining corporation in its successful bid to sue Canada using NAFTA.
keywords: Canada , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , NAFTA | USMCA
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Renegotiating NAFTA by the back door
rabble.ca | 23-Sep-2015
For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to address some of the deal’s most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor-state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent-wide strategy for auto investment and production.
keywords: Canada , CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS , labour | workers’ rights , NAFTA | USMCA