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World Trade Organization rules against Ontario's Feed-In Tariff program

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada, Global
  • -
  • December 20 2012

The World Trade Organization released today its decision on complaints by Japan and the European Union regarding Ontario’s Feed-In Tariff local content rules

WTO expected to rule against local-content requirements (special update)

  • Chadbourne & Parke LLP
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  • Canada, Global
  • -
  • October 22 2012

A World Trade Organization panel appears poised to rule that the local-content requirements included in the feed-in tariff regime in Ontario, Canada violate international trade law

WTO dispute panelists

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Canada, European Union, Global
  • -
  • January 29 2012

The European Union and Canada agreed January 20 on the appointment of three World Trade Organization dispute panelists who will rule on the EU’s complaint against the provisions in the Canadian province of Ontario’s green energy program which the agency claims unfairly discriminates against foreign firms

WTO rules public can view Japanese-Canadian dispute hearing

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Canada, Global, Japan
  • -
  • January 22 2012

On January 18, the World Trade Organization said the public can listen in on dispute panel proceedings between Japan and Canada over whether the domestic content requirements under Ontario's Feed-In Tariff (FIT) program violate WTO rules by requiring that wind and solar projects include a minimum amount of Ontario originated goods and services

A new governance standard for the world’s natural resources industry

  • McMillan LLP
  • -
  • Canada, Global
  • -
  • March 10 2008

That natural resources create national wealth sounds like a reasonably obvious statement, but that may not always be the case

Sustainable investment trend: legal impact on your business?

  • Norton Rose Canada LLP
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  • Canada, Global
  • -
  • May 19 2009

On September 9, 2008, Norway’s Ministry of Finance decided to exclude a global mining company from its national "Government Pension Fund - Global" (the "Global Fund"

Green fuel or greenwash

  • McMillan LLP
  • -
  • Canada, Global, USA
  • -
  • January 6 2010

On May 20, 2009, Canada, together with the European Union, Brazil and Chile, wrote to the United States Congress urging them to repeal a tax credit for the use of black liquor as a biofuel, on the basis that the credit is acting as a subsidy on the production of kraft pulp contrary to World Trade Organization ("WTO") rules

Is the mining legislation pendulum shifting back towards resource nationalism?

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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  • Canada, Global
  • -
  • July 7 2010

Mineral policy over the past 100 years can be viewed as a pendulum which swings between the interests of governments on one side and the interests of the investment community on the other

The long road to a Kyoto successor: COP15 goals and hurdles

  • McMillan LLP
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  • Canada, Global
  • -
  • December 18 2009

Nearly 200 countries are involved in the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference ("COP15") taking place at Bella Center in Copenhagen from December 7 to 18, 2009

Wind energy law: a primer on global legal and business issues

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada, Global
  • -
  • September 30 2011

World wind energy capacity grew by an astonishing 22.5 per cent in 2010