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FBaggins

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3. That's not very good reporting

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2014, 05:54 AM

Sep 2014

At issue is whether a government should be punished for refusing to let a foreign mining company operate because it wants to protect its main source of water.

Nothing of the sort is "at issue". A sovereign state does have the right to refuse to allow a mining company to mine on their soil... and that's whether they have a good reason to or not. What they can't do is enter into an arrangement to allow them to mine... and then change the rules after investments are made... without compensating the company.

The time to make such decisions is before you let them in the country.

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Meet the Company Suing El Salvador for the Right to Poison Its Water [View all] Judi Lynn Sep 2014 OP

K&R for another obscenity of the world of "progress" & "growth". (n/t) Nihil Sep 2014 #1

The TPP will take care of these little discrepancies. unhappycamper Sep 2014 #2

That's not very good reporting FBaggins Sep 2014 #3