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From Public Citizen:
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Empowering Corporations to Attack Nations

Incentivizing Corporations to Offshore Our Jobs and Attack Our Laws

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would grant foreign corporations extraordinary new powers to attack the laws we rely on for a clean environment, essential services, and healthy communities. Foreign corporations would be empowered to bypass domestic courts and directly “sue” the U.S. government before a tribunal of private lawyers that sits outside of any domestic legal system. These lawyers would be authorized to order the U.S. government to hand millions of our tax dollars to the corporations for laws that they find inconvenient.

How could foreign corporations attack domestic health, environmental and financial protections that local companies have to follow? The TPP would give foreign firms special privileges, including the ability to challenge new policies – from Wall Street regulations to climate change protections – because they frustrated the corporations’…

Opinion:

¶ “Australia isolated on climate after G7 meeting” – Many countries can see the writing on the wall. After the G7 nations announced a goal of moving away from fossil fuel dependence, a question arises: Could Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his Government be any more out of step with the world on climate policy? [SBS]

Energy Brix Power Station, Victoria, brown coal fired power station and briquette factory. Photo by Marcus Wong. Wikimedia Commons.

World:

¶ On Monday, renewable energy development company SunEdison was awarded an additional five solar photovoltaic power projects in South Africa under round 4.5 of the country’s procurement program. The five projects will be located in the North West Provinces and will have a total generation capacity of 371 MW. [ESI Africa]

¶ Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay got planning consent from the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change for construction…

Science and Technology:

¶ Sungrow, one of the leading PV-inverter manufacturers in the world, has released a series of inverters with 99% efficiency. The string and central inverters with a peak efficiency of 99% were developed by Sungrow’s in-house R&D team, with certification from the Austrian Institute of Technology. [Your Renewable News]

World:

¶ Increased capacity and strong winds saw Scottish wind power generation rise 83% year-on-year last month, setting a record for May. The turbines generated enough for 101% of Scottish households. WWF Scotland said on Monday as it called on the UK government to rethink its plans to curb onshore wind. [SeeNews Renewables]

Wind park in Scotland. Author: Ian Dick. License: Creative Commons, Attribution 2.0 Generic.

¶ Indonesia plans to review local coal mines which do not have “clean and clear certification,” and possibly consolidate the country’s coal industry, according to the mining and…

By DemocracyNow.org:
FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 2010
Indigenous Leader Art Manuel: “Indigenous People Are the First Ones Impacted” by Western-Driven Resource Extraction

Indigenous leader Art Manuel, former Chief of the Neskonlith Band in British Columbia and spokesperson for the Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade, joins us to talk about the struggle for indigenous rights and sovereignty in the context of the G20 summit. [includes rush transcript]

TRANSCRIPT
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AMY GOODMAN: I’m joined here in Toronto by Arthur Manuel. He is the former chief of the Neskonlith Band in British Columbia and spokesperson for the Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade.
Why are indigenous people coming out into the streets here in Toronto, Art?

ARTHUR MANUEL: Because basically indigenous people are the first ones that are impacted by the major sort of resource extraction-type industries that these big conferences…