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Days after UK Supreme Court rules Shell can be taken to court for human rights abuses in Nigeria - Shell takes Nigeria to ISDS. We may never know on what terms. To reiterate, ICS/ISDS is deliberately used to bypass & undermine internat. human rights & climate change law #StopCETA https://twitter.com/TaraVanHo/status/1359981013863129090
Those on the fence about CETA's ICS must understand the constitutional implications. Also, be aware you are aligning yourself with the aim of a companies such as Shell which has been involved in:
1. Kidnapping, framing and murdering indigenous people. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/08/nigeria-usa
1. Kidnapping, framing and murdering indigenous people. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/08/nigeria-usa
2. Being one of 20 companies primarily responsible for climate change, and therefore the subject of numerous court cases taken by citizens and children. https://choice.npr.org/index.html?origin=https://www.npr.org/2020/12/01/940717012/climate-case-against-shell-begins-in-the-netherlands
3. Shell knew it was causing climate change from 1988. Just as it uses ISDS today to undermine climate action, Shell began a misinformation campaign to undermine the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change incl through funding climate denial. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/04/05/documents-show-shell-foresaw-climate-change-three-decades-ago-and-knew-how-big-its-own-contribution-was/
4. Numerous corruption scandals where planning, human rights, adminstrative law, conservation law all undermined in the pursuit of oil and gas. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jul/22/prosecutors-seek-jail-terms-shell-eni-executives-nigeria-oil-deal
5. And where to begin with the legacy of Shell in Ireland? it includes documented human rights abuses, undermining of planning, conservation and procedural law incl splitting of environmental impact assessment, corruption, bribes, false imprisonment. https://www.thejournal.ie/un-corrib-gas-human-rights-820112-Mar2013/
As @neasa_neasa says. When you back ICS and agree to ratify CETA - this is the world you invite upon us. Where every forward step in human rights and climate action is shot back by the priorities of corporations with truly appalling track records. https://mobile.twitter.com/neasa_neasa/status/1360573747900653569
