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pampango

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8. As long as Obama's decision was based on facts, not xenophobia - and it was - no problem.

Reply to cali (Original post)

Sun Jun 26, 2016, 07:36 AM

Jun 2016

Obviously, if some government made a decision against a foreign company for political or xenophobic reasons - imagine what a President Trump is capable of - that would be a different matter.

Anyone who thinks Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline out of some xenophobia that it was a Canadian company, is not in touch with reality. It is hard to imagine that the executives are TransCanada really think that. Perhaps this is intended to cover their a****s against their board of directors and stockholders. "Obama did this to us because we are Canadian!"

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TransCanada formally seeks NAFTA damages in Keystone XL rejection [View all] cali Jun 2016 OP

The American tax payer is being sued for not letting a pipeline for tar sands think Jun 2016 #1

TC is, as the article states, also suing in Federal Court here cali Jun 2016 #2

And the floodgates will open mrr303am Jun 2016 #3

They'll lose. mt msanthrope Jun 2016 #5

Maybe. Maybe not. But corporations have won in other cases using ISDS cali Jun 2016 #7

The US has never lost a case. And railing against arbitration is an antiquated view of dispute msanthrope Jun 2016 #9

baloney. has never is not synonymous with "will never" cali Jun 2016 #10

The only fact presented is that the United States has never lost a case. msanthrope Jun 2016 #14

Can they sue for "lost expected future profits"? TransitJohn Jun 2016 #11

Hope not. It's bad enough they can sue for being blocked from pumping tar sands through a pipeline. think Jun 2016 #12

From Ecowatch cali Jun 2016 #4

They'll lose. nt msanthrope Jun 2016 #6

As long as Obama's decision was based on facts, not xenophobia - and it was - no problem. pampango Jun 2016 #8

TransCanada also filed suit in our regular court system outside of NAFTA, they won't win either suit Hoyt Jun 2016 #13