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Google could use ISDS to sue Australia for millions over regulation for payment of news content

AFTINET | 9-Feb-2021

Google’s Singapore subsidiary could use a controversial ISDS provision in the Singapore-Australia Free Trade Agreement to demand millions in compensation over proposed Australian regulation for payment of news content.

keywords: Australia , e-commerce | digital economy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Singapore

Russia seeks reversal of judgment in Yukos case in Dutch Supreme Court

TASS | 8-Feb-2021

The Russian side also repeatedly drew attention to the fact that Yukos shareholders have no right to use modern protection mechanisms, since the privatization of the company was accompanied by deception, corruption and tax evasion

keywords: climate , ECT , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Russia

Q&A: Int’l arbitration expert on Alberta’s threat of ’slam-dunk’ case v. USA over Keystone veto

West Law | 8-Feb-2021

Alberta’s Premier said that the Canadian province, which has an equity in the now-canceled Keystone XL pipeline, may seek compensation under investor-protection provisions still in effect under NAFTA

keywords: Canada , climate , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , NAFTA | USMCA , US

PTI govt has not signed or ratified any BIT as yet

Business Recorder | 8-Feb-2021

Sources said that the government will have its own template for a BIT, which will replace the existing treaties with different countries.

keywords: investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , ISDS reform , Pakistan

How Google could sue Australia for billions

Australian Financial Review | 4-Feb-2021

Google and Facebook could sue the government for billions of dollars over a proposed law to force the digital giants to pay publishers for displaying news content, by seizing on investment clauses in the Australia-Singapore trade agreement.

keywords: Australia , e-commerce | digital economy , Hong Kong , investor-state disputes | ISDS , US

France puts EU withdrawal from Energy Charter Treaty on the table

Euractiv | 4-Feb-2021

The European Union and its member states should draw the consequences of the current stalemate in multilateral talks aimed at reforming the Energy Charter Treaty and consider a coordinated withdrawal, Paris has said

keywords: climate , ECT , energy , EU , France , investor-state disputes | ISDS

German energy giant RWE uses the Energy Charter Treaty to attack Dutch climate action

CAN Europe | 4-Feb-2021

RWE has filed an arbitration claim against the Netherlands, seeking compensation for the Dutch decision to phase-out electricity production from coal by 2030.

keywords: climate , ECT , energy , Germany , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Netherlands