Indigenous ‘priorities’ and the threat of investor-state arbitration

TC Energy’s pursuit of investor-state arbitration over U.S. President Joe Biden’s cancellation of Keystone XL serves as a dull warning to Mexico.

The Indigenous affairs bodies of the Canadian and Mexican governments signed a memorandum of understanding on the heels of a meeting between United States President Joe Biden, left, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in January. Photograph courtesy of Eneas De Troya/Flickr

Opinion

BY ANNA ZALIK, ELIANA ACOSTA MARQUEZ

March 8, 2023

As the world observes the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine that stalled hydrocarbon projects and resulted in windfall profits for the oil and gas industry, efforts to plaster fossil fuel pipelines over Indigen...

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