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Canadienses demandan a México por 200 millones de dólares
El Financiero | 11-Aug-2015
Una empresa canadiense de inversiones inmobiliarias iniciará un arbitraje contra México bajo el TLC. ¿El monto demandado?: 200 millones de dólares.
keywords: Canada , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Mexico , NAFTA | USMCA
International investment agreements and Africa’s structural transformation: a perspective from South Africa
South Centre | 9-Aug-2015
The brief describes the widening debate on the implications of international investment agreements for sustainable development and outlines the broad features of alternative policy approaches to foreign direct investment
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , reformed ISDS , SADC , South Africa
Spain facing compensation bill of billions over renewables cuts
El País | 7-Aug-2015
Spain has suffered its first setback in an international arbitration process over its cuts to renewable energy subsidies.
keywords: ECT , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Spain
Canadian corporations abuse investment treaties, bully governments into environmental backtrack: study
CCPA | 6-Aug-2015
Canadian investors have exploited a controversial mechanism in international investment treaties to challenge public interest regulations in 24 different countries
keywords: Canada , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Austria hit with first ICSID claim
Global Arbitration Review | 6-Aug-2015
The owner of a Vienna bank targeted by multiple fraud investigations has lodged what is thought to be the first-ever investment treaty claim against Austria
keywords: Austria , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Malta
A losing proposition
CCPA | 5-Aug-2015
The failure of Canadian ISDS policy at home and abroad.
keywords: Canada , investor-state disputes | ISDS , NAFTA | USMCA
Poland risks Bilateral Investment Treaty claims in adopting new law
Lexology | 5-Aug-2015
The Polish Parliament has just passed a new law restricting investment in certain strategic Polish companies, which raises the risk of potential Bilateral Investment Treaty claims
keywords: investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Poland
TransCanada may recoup costs from US if Obama rejects Keystone
Bloomberg | 4-Aug-2015
A provision in the North American Free Trade Agreement would let the Canadian company TransCanada Corp. recoup some of the $2.4 billion spent on its Keystone XL project
keywords: Canada , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , NAFTA | USMCA , US
UK and France paid 24m euros in Calais migrants ISDS case
War on Want | 3-Aug-2015
A spokesperson for the company Eurotunnel has revealed that the UK and French governments were required by a private arbitration tribunal to pay out nearly 24 million euros for failing to provide adequate security around the entrance to the Channel Tunnel between 1999 and 2002.
keywords: France , investor-state disputes | ISDS , UK
¡Hasta nunca Infinito Gold! Si bien con mucho retraso, la empresa por fin se despide de Costa Rica
MiningWatch Canadá | 31-Jul-2015
Organizaciones de la sociedad civil reciben con satisfacción el anuncio que Infinito Gold desistirá de su tortuosa intención de construir una mina en Costa Rica a pesar de la clara oposición del pueblo costarricense y los repetidos fallos en su contra.
keywords: actions | resistance , Canada , Costa Rica , ICSID , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining