A key NAFTA body has recommended a formal investigation into Canada's refusal to protect its polar bears despite the grave threats posed to them by climate change.
… NAFTA: Investigate Canada's failure to protect Polar Bears The Ecologist | 20th November 2013 News Canada Climate Change US Natural World A key … has recommended a formal investigation into Canada's refusal to protect its polar bears …
The Stop TTIP coalition is warning that under a 'stealth clause' in CETA the trade deal could come into force without a single parliamentary vote - including its ISDS provisions allowing investors to sue governments in secret courts. US corporations would then be able to sue EU nations - even if TTIP fails.
… CETA Canada-EU 'free trade' deal could come into … Oliver Tickell | 15th April 2016 News EU US Canada Trade Russia Corporations Finance … TTIP colation warned today that the CETA, the Canada-EU Trade Agreement, could come into …
The TTIP EU-US trade deal has finally hit the rocks with massive popular opposition on both sides of the Atlantic gaining serious political traction, write Guy Taylor & Nick Dearden. There's now a good chance that TTIP will be defeated - but first we must make sure that CETA, the equally toxic EU-Canada 'Trojan Horse' deal, bites the dust.
… Dearden | 4th May 2016 Comment Trade EU US Canada Politics Corporations … make sure that CETA, the equally toxic EU-Canada 'Trojan Horse' deal, bites the dust. … been moving rapidly last week on CETA, an EU-Canada 'free trade' deal similar to TTIP …
How fossil fuels are destroying biodiversity and Indigenous people’s rights.
… Lakes Indigenous Rights Ecuador Peru Canada US Biodiversity Editor’s Picks … lack access to medical care. Tar sands In Canada extraction of oil from tar sands in … located close to the Athabasca River - one of Canada’s major rivers that flows through …
The lesson of fracking in the US and Canada is a simple one, writes Naomi Klein. The fracking industry is vicious, brutal and will stop at nothing to get its way. British anti-frackers can celebrate yesterday's achievements - but the fight ahead will not be an easy one.
… Change Pollution Corporations Law US UK Canada denton-fracking-cut.jpg The lesson of fracking in the US and Canada is a simple one, writes Naomi Klein. … in the United States and in my own country, Canada. The US is not only where the gas …
The latest country to be hooked under 'free trade' agreements is Colombia, writes Pete Dolack, sued for tens of billions of dollars by US and Canadian gold mining companies for valuing its national parks and the high-altitude Andean wetlands that provide 70% of the nation's water above the profits of foreign corporations. Free trade or clean water? You can't have both.
… 14th April 2016 News Colombia Mining Trade US Canada Water Conservation Corporations … government because of this under the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. The … "energy and other" products imported to Canada to be C$280 million. The World Bank …
Ninety-eight per cent of the products in our stores claiming to be environmentally friendly are guilty of greenwash, a US committee hears
… US House Of Representatives Sins TerraChoice Canada Cigarette Labels Manufacturers Report … of the 2,219 products tested in the US and Canada committed at least one greenwashing … Almost 4,000 products in the UK, US, Canada and Australia were judged according to …
Deep space missions have previously run on nuclear power, writes Karl Grossman - and have twice showered Earth with radioactive debris. But the ESA's Rosetta probe, about to reach its destination, is 100% solar-powered - showing that space can be nuclear-free.
… of miles across the Northwest Territories of Canada. The late Dr. John Gofman, professor of … with a global increase in lung cancer. Canada demanded compensation for the …
The TTIP - a massive trade and investment deal under negotiation between the US and the EU - could be the end of democracy as we know it, writes Morton Thaysen, as corporate rights will supplant those of ciizens and elected governments. Join a global day of action today!
… (including EDF) for freezing utility prices. Canada is being sued for $500 million by big … Trade Agreement between Mexico, the USA and Canada. Just as it has been the result of …
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Programme - TTIP - is a huge 'free trade' agreement under negotiation between the EU and the USA. Zac Goldsmith MP warned Parliament that it threatens to undermine key democratic principles.
… example in relation to NAFTA concerns Canada being sued via one of these dispute … for banning the chemical MMT, which Canada considers to be a highly dangerous toxin. Canada had to settle. It paid millions of …
The leaked chapters of the EU-US TTIP 'free trade' deal reveal a shredding of health, environmental and other protections for consumers and citizens, writes Pete Dolack. It's a wet dream for corporate monopolists and profiteers, and the elite bureaucrats that serve them. But for civil society it represents an irreversible destruction of democracy itself.
… countries with stronger regulations, such as Canada under the North American Free Trade … in which a tribunal, in ordering that Canada reverse a ban against PCBs, a …
478 cosmetic products on sale in the US contain doses of toxic chemicals which are unsafe, even when used as directed on the bottle, the US NGO the Environmental Working Group has revealed.
… would simply not be allowed on sale in Canada, Japan or the EU. Tests on 23,000 …
New analysis of the vast body of research shows 97% of climate scientists agree that human activities are fuelling climate change, writes Tim Radford. But thanks to aggressive attempts to convince us otherwise, only 12% of people in the US are aware of this high level of agreement.
… in Australia, and colleagues from the US, Canada and Europe report in Environmental …
The investor protections in the US-EU TTIP treaty would privilege US corporations over the EU's own citizens and businesses, writes Laurens Ankersmit & Oliver Tickell. That would sideline EU courts and undermine the completion of the internal market. It is therefore essential that the EU Court be asked to rule whether they are legal.
… . The same considerations apply to the EU-Canada CETA treaty - though Canadian …
The US is busy negotiating two sprawling new trade deals, with the European Union and 11 Pacific Rim nations, and progressives are up in arms. Ben Whitford asks: Just how bad are the deals?
… to phase out nuclear power stations, and in Canada, where a US energy company is suing for …
Leaked papers reveal that the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal would represent a historic transfer of power and money from the US and other governments to corporations.
… of a US mining company, Bilcon, against Canada , after permission to mine basalt in …
Rich industrialised countries have a responsibility to help others stick to their green responsibilities, argues Helena Norberg-Hodge, not collude in helping shirk them
… with China, India, Japan, Korea and Canada as a rival to the Kyoto protocol, in …
The US government has given he go-ahead for a test plot of genetically modified (GM) eucalyptus trees in Alabama. For the first time, these trees will be allowed to flower and set seed, opening the door to potential widespread contamination of the American South.
… in the Northwest US and British Columbia, Canada. APHIS ignored the fact eucalyptus …
Ecuador is the latest country to tear up 'free trade' agreements that have so far cost the country $21 billion in damages awarded to foreign companies by 'corporate courts', and yielded next to nothing in return, writes Nick Dearden. So the outgoing President Correa did the only sensible thing: in one of his final executive acts this month, he scrapped 16 toxic trade and investment treaties.
… and investment deals, including with the US, Canada, China and the UK. Importantly, they …
The Leader of the US Senate says that under the China-US climate deal, China can 'do nothing at all for 16 years'. John Mathews and Hao Tan examine the claim - and find it's the very reverse of the truth. China is leading the world in greening its energy supply, and has committed to add a massive 1.3GW of renewable power capacity every week for 15 years. Now Mitch - beat that!
… least close US allies such as Australia and Canada - would be wise to pay attention. …
One of the world's biggest energy companies has been caught out in what may be the biggest ever climate scandal, writes Bill McKibben. Way back in the 1980s ExxonMobil knew of the 'potentially catastrophic' and 'irreversible' effects of increasing fossil fuel consumption, but chose to cover up the findings, spread misinformation on climate change, and go for high carbon energy sources.
… plans in the Gulf of Mexico, eastern Canada, Indonesia, Australia, the Russian far … future wish list, including the tar sands of Canada, a particularly carbon-filthy, …
There are many good reasons to criticise Donald Trump, writes John McMurtry. But none of these matter to the US media, political and corporate powers determined to keep him out of the White House. With his radical talk of halving military spending, controlling Big Pharma and exiting 'free trade' agreements, Trump is a direct threat to the parasite capitalism that's destroying America.
… McMurtry is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada whose work is translated from Latin …