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Secretive EU Energy Charter Treaty

jeudi 24 février 2022 à 09:06

Fossil fuel companies are demanding billions of dollars in damages from countries that are blocking development of new oilfields, or even cutting down on the use of coal. They are doing this through a business-supremacy treaty, the "Energy Charter Treaty", which has an ISDS clause ("I Sue Democratic States")

It is hard for the victims of the treaty to cancel it; they would need to rebel against the global systems for enforcing the payments.

However, countries could pass laws that recognize that these companies are engaging in attempted mass murder -- which is the truth -- as well as any lawyers that represent them in the treaty cases. Then they could start a global manhunt to prosecute them. With luck, this will cause the treaty to become ineffective.