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EU Comission propeses joint leaving of the Energy Charter Treaty (www.euractiv.com)
submitted 1 year ago by MrMakabar to c/climate
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The Energy Charter Treaty was created in 1991 to create a safe investment enviorment for energy projects in former Warsaw Pact countries. Signatories can be sued, when they hurt investors intrests. Unforuntaly the treaty has been used by the fossil fuel industry to sue governments into allowing them to run their investments longer. So leaving it is a good idea.

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[–] pacology@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I’m scrolling so fast that I thought that Lesley Knope was in the articles thumbnail and I got confused.

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How would this impact Warsaw Pact countries now part of the EU?

[–] MrMakabar 1 points 1 year ago

The idea was to insure that energy investments are safe from political manipulation. The EU is pretty good at doing that for the members, so the investments will continue. What is good news for them is that they can make life for fossil fuels more difficult. With Poland generate 30% of the EUs coal electricity, that is really intressting. Czechia is another really dirty grid. It also will be usefull in case of Russian energy assets in the region.