One of the problems with the current growing positive response to protests by it's people to curtail environmental damage caused by mining companies, is the ability for these companies to sue a government for lost potential revenue because of a goverments action to curtail an operation that is causing harm to the environment.
Various Globalization trade agreements like the WTO, NAFTA, BIPA , etc.trump local law and therefore do not incentivize clean mining practices or the ability to demand reform of ongoing operations that put the water, soil and air in peril.
We are starting to see a resistance to these organizations and it's about time.
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“Foreign investors often complain they do not have proper recourse in disputes. The danger of the government passing a law that impacts the value of their business is there,” Venugopal said. “However, if there is a genuine concern on the part of the government, you cannot take away the sovereign right of a state to legislate.”
http://www.livemint.com/2012/01/29231517/India-may-exclude-clause-on-la.html?h=B
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