“I feel awful, I don’t think that’s fair. “Is it worrying, yes it’s worrying,” says Alfredo Arias who lives near the proposed mining site. In Costa Rica, the threat of losing a billion dollars to a Canadian company has some concerned. “And whatever decision they make, it will lack integrity as a result.” “The point is the people making the decision are the wrong people,” he says. I think they asked them to take down the episode Ross, Carrie, and their lawyer countered with an anti-SLAPP response (I believe Carrie and their lawyer stayed up all night finishing it) and I guess the lawsuit was withdrawn or something. Van Harten says this is a “well-known conflict of interest.” The short story: Rythmia sued for breach of contract in both California and Costa Rica. Some can actually double as lawyers at the same time they are arbitrators, even if they are arguing similar cases. READ MORE: Colombian labour union accuses Canada’s Pacific Rubiales Energy of intimidation He also says the international arbitration system is tainted, and that arbitrators, who are given immense power to settle disputes, aren’t proper judges. “So on the one hand, in a way, it’s the Costa Rican government’s fault,” says the associate professor at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. He says through international trade agreements signed between countries, international arbitrators have the power to override court and government decisions of sovereign countries. discovers secrets or violates the privacy of another without consent. “I think it is irresponsible and it is giving the Canadian mining industry a bad name.”īut international arbitration expert Gus Van Harten says Infinito Gold may have a case. the review of Costa Rica by the Committee on Digital Economy Policy or any other. “I think it’s reprehensible,” says Jamie Kneen with MiningWatch Canada. The suit is also inciting anger in Canada. “It is an insult to the intelligence of our people,” says lawyer Edgardo Araya, who also fought against the project. Yokebec Soto, spokesperson for Infinito Gold’s subsidiary in Costa Rica, told Global News by email the company has already invested $92 million in the project and if the project does not proceed, could lose $1 billion in profits. The company believes the country is violating its trade agreements with Canada. In a press release, the company said it had “served notice” to Costa Rica in April 2013, and after the country did not respond, its subsidiary announced a massive lawsuit is “imminent,” the largest in Costa Rica’s history.
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