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Lacking Trasparency: The Transatlantic Trade And Investment Partnership (TTIP)![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
This article examines the Transatlantic Free Trade agreement and it's potential repercussions. In 2010 the US mining and gas company, Renco, managed to successfully avoid having to pay compensation to Peruvian locals who were harmed due to pollution by their companies by successfully using a provision of the Peru-US Trade Agreement[1]. Not satisfied with avoiding having to pay compensation, the company has since demanded $800 million from the Peruvian government as they argue that one of the companies they own, Doe Run, was forced into bankruptcy due to an expensive pollution clean-up which the Peruvian government required Doe Run to conduct [2].
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In 2010 the US mining and gas company, Renco, managed to successfully avoid having to pay compensation to Peruvian locals who were harmed due to pollution by their companies by successfully using a provision of the Peru-US Trade Agreement[1]. Not satisfied with avoiding having to pay compensation, the company has since demanded $800 million from the Peruvian government as they argue that one of the companies they own, Doe Run, was forced into bankruptcy due to an expensive pollution clean-up which the Peruvian government required Doe Run to conduct [2].
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() See this picture : http://0z.fr/DbhzL ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike Enda, the Austrian Chancellor is prepared to fight the TTIP. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The latest article from George Monbiot. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a very good initiative being taken in regard to TTIP. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As It says, a 2 minute video on TTIP made in US: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here is a petition site to stop the talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or TTIP. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The TTIP was brought up twice in the vincent brown debate on membership of the EU. |
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Jump To Comment: 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1Better keep hassling them during the summer!
From Bilaterals.org:
http://www.bilaterals.org/?divided-eu-lawmakers-postpon...ng=en
As bought and paid for privatisation ideologues in FG wax lyrical about TTIP,
here's another timely article on the subject by Paul Craig Roberts to help counter their lies and spin:
Rule By The Corporations - TTIP: The Corporate Empowerment Act
Some extracts:
another interesting article about the economics of free trade agreements
and how it falls apart on closer analysis and comparison with what goes on in the real world
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/22/the-problem-with...lism/
http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/ttip-corporations-sue-g...2015/
Philip morris sueing Ireland over plain packaging is a wake up call for Ireland.
Richard Bruton has clearly been got at by our US friends and is actively cheerleading ISDS in TTIP
Article from the Corporate Europe Observatory:
http://corporateeurope.org/international-trade/2015/01/...uffed
And this:
http://corporateeurope.org/international-trade/2015/02/...ssion
This is from Connolly media. A presentation by Dr Paul O'Connell on the the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). See also the Stop the TTIP leaflet produced by the People's Movement
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Stop the TTIP! by Dr Paul O