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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTransPacific Partnership coming attraction: Infinito Gold slaps Costa Rica with a $1 billion lawsuit
More of this to happen if the TPP goes through.
http://action.sumofus.org/a/mining-costarica/3/3/?sub=fb
Infinito Gold, a Canadian mining company, just slapped Costa Rica with a $1 billion lawsuit simply because the country decided its rainforests were more important than an open-pit gold mine.
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TransPacific Partnership coming attraction: Infinito Gold slaps Costa Rica with a $1 billion lawsuit (Original Post)
TalkingDog
Nov 2013
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dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)1. Similar to the trans Atlantic one too.
Bayer are suing the EU for loss of income due to the moratoriun on use of some pesticides thought to be causing bee deaths.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)2. Bad news. (no text)
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)3. On what grounds can they bring a lawsuit?
Can't get that from the article
cali
(114,904 posts)4. the investors' rights chapter of the treaty
all FTAs have them. they all egregiously favor corporations. this is pretty common.