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🔥💀Dawn Of The ECT 💀🔥
The Comic Book about the Energy Charter Treaty!

FREE download here: celinekeller.com/dawn-of-the-ect
Time to #EndFossilFuelProtection

“Either we kill this treaty, or the treaty will kill us!”

@ysaheb #StopISDS #NoECT #ExitECT🧵

"Put it simple, this treaty is a major threat to the EU energy sovereignty, #GreenDeal, and #ClimateJustice goals. This timely comic is of high importance to ensure the French Presidency will end the participation of EU countries to this ecocide treaty.” @ysaheb #ExitECT #NoECT

"The Energy Charter Treaty is the arguably the largest and most arcane obstacle to climate action. This comic will help you figure out what is going on through thoroughly researched cases. Read, share and convince your politicians to stop the ECT!" @JKSteinberger #ExitECT

"This is the biggest threat to climate policy around the world, and most people don’t even know this shadowy, quasi-legal system exists, let alone how it works. If we have any hope of disarming it, we need folks to be aware of what’s happening!” @amywestervelt #StopISDS #ExitECT

🔥💀Dawn Of The ECT 💀🔥 the Comic Book celinekeller.com/dawn-of-the-ect would not have been possible without the work of so many before me. THANK YOU! Next tweet I will share a couple big investigations I read and relied on heavily. #EndFossilFuelProtection #StopISDS #ExitECT

THANK YOU to @TNInstitute @corporateeurope @AttacAustria @PowerShift_eV @investigate_eu @CANEurope tirelessly doing the hard work! #ExitECT

energy-charter-dirty-secrets.org
investigate-europe.eu/en/2021/ect/
tni.org/en/ect-mythbus… caneurope.org/8-reasons-ect-…

What did it take to get a compliment from Margaret Thatcher?
Ruud “Shock” Lubbers the mastermind behind the Energy Charter Treaty knew. 
time.com/vault/issue/19…
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#ExitECT #StopISDS #EndFossilFuelProtection

“Lubbers Plan” was conceived at the end of the cold war. When it was realized as the #ECT it had 3 objectives. If they had called it “Ruud Shock” Disaster Plan maybe we wouldn’t be stuck in such a mess now?
🔥💀Dawn Of The ECT 💀🔥
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#ExitECT #StopISDS

The ”modernisation“ process of the Energy Charter Treaty just keeps this toxic treaty alive! It has been going on and failing for ages. #ExitECT #StopISDS Modernisation of the #ECT is a Global Tragedy at a High Cost for Taxpayers @ysaheb tinyurl.com/26zuzyub
#NoECT

"Modernisation"? After 2 years of dialogue, no deadline has emerged to fix #ECT which allows big emitters to sue states for enacting green reforms. @investigate_eu investigate-europe.eu/en/2021/energy… #ExitECT #EndFossilFuelProtection
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Enabling Putin’s war - The ties between Amsterdam’s financial centre and Gazprom somo.nl/enabling-putin… @SOMO
🔥💀Dawn Of The ECT 💀🔥
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#EndFossilFuelprotection #StopISDS #ExitECT

"The Dutch Government’s strange relationship with the Energy Charter Treaty is coming back to bite the Netherlands.🇩🇪 @RWE_AG evoked the #ECT in its lawsuit against 🇳🇱 for implementation of the phase-out of coal power plants." @ysaheb 2021 euractiv.com/section/energy… #ExitECT #NoECT

MH17 no obstacle to gas talks with Putin –just had 2b carried out secretly @FTM_eu
ftm.eu/articles/mh17-…

“..not uncharacteristic of Dutch political temperament..there was no immediate public uproar abt corporate responsibility in this matter” euobserver.com/opinion/125214 #ExitECT

Remember 2014 Ukraine?
‘An outrage’: World leaders react to Malaysian Airlines MH17 globalnews.ca/news/1459290/a… "The Netherlands, a nation of traders, generally doesn’t like to let politics interfere with business. " bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
#EndFossilFuelProtection #StopISDS #ExitECT

"Over the past decades, Dutch politicians and CEOs have painstakingly linked the future of the Dutch gas sector with the fate of Gazprom and the Kremlin."
…platform--investico-nl.translate.goog/artikel/dont-l…

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#NoECT #StopISDS #EndFossilFuelProtection #ExitECT

....to be continued.
After a long nap, cause I finished it all only yesterday. Big❤️to all sharing!
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#StopISDS #EndFossilFuelProtection #ExitECT
Shell’s legal weapon to threaten a just energy future @SOMO somo.nl/shells-legal-w…

"We don't only need to phase-out coal + fossil fuels. We need to phase out the power these companies still have…over our governments.”
@SandraBeckerman

@RWE_AG @uniper_energy @Fortum 👀
Multi-billion € lawsuits derail climate action @dwnews dw.com/en/energy-char…
#ExitECT

May 2021:
Court orders Royal Dutch Shell to cut carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 in landmark case brought by @foeeurope + over 17,000 co-plaintiffs.
theguardian.com/business/2021/…
December 2021:
Can we still be friends? @Shell sends Dutch PM parting note reuters.com/business/can-w… #ExitECT

"2 days after #COP26 talks end in bitter disappointment..gov is now cheering on arrival of @Shell" @StopCambo
theneweuropean.co.uk/shell-move-to-… & theguardian.com/politics/2014/…
👇last sentence 🚨
cms-lawnow.com/ealerts/2021/0…
Always check #ClimateCriminals @DeSmog!💚
desmog.com/nigel-farage/
#StopISDS

@Shell @StopCambo @DeSmog @ysaheb 2021 All TOP 10 emitters “are located in Germany & Poland…🇩🇪 lignite plant Niederaußem, owned by @RWE_AG showed the largest emissions increase from 2020 of a colossal 36%.” @EmberClimate
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#EndFossilFuelProtection #StopISDS #NoECT

2020
“The coal exit can arrive,” @SvenjaSchulze68 rejoiced + "emphasised that the agreement explicitly mentions bringing forward Germany’s coal phase-out to 2035 instead of 2038."
(in exchange for gold-plating @LEAG_de @RWE_AG's stranded assets) euractiv.com/section/energy…
#ExitECT

Earlier in 2020:
"Confidential documents on🇩🇪coal phase-out show that @peteraltmaier (CDU),wants to pay an East German energy company billions in compensation FOR PRACTICALLY NOTHING IN RETURN."
tinyurl.com/35fwp4bw
"A bloody straddle in injury time." @felixmatthes
#ExitECT

Compensation of billions unjustified @GreenpeaceEU greenpeace.de/klimaschutz/en…
"Germany must explain to the Commission why the German lignite companies should receive an undeserved gift of billions from the Federal Ministry of Economics."
@KarSmid
#NoECT #StopISDS #ExitECT

"@ClientEarth + @fragdenstaat wanted to know what criteria was used to calculate compensation offered to energy firms..Meanwhile...coal power plants are hardly profitable any more." @EURACTIV @spiegelonline
euractiv.com/section/climat…
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@ClientEarth @fragdenstaat @EURACTIV @spiegelonline "However: If you use this formula, you arrive at the sum of around 4.4 billion euros, i.e. the sum that is still current today." @correctiv_org correctiv.org/aktuelles/2021… @susannegoetze @AnnikaJoeres
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#EndFossilFuelProtection #ExitECT

"@BWMK: public discussion abt compensation calculations could "unfavourably influence"🇩🇪's relations with EU!" @badulrichmartha
"Note: It is not the gov with its pseudo-calculations that is to blame..but those who brought it to light." @klimareport klimareporter.de/strom/die-form…
#NoECT

“reform is failing, fossil fuel firms are using it to attack climate policies, over a million citizens are calling for it to be scrapped + now highest court of the EU has declared it illegal. Quitting the ECT should be a no-brainer" @climate_trade #ExitECT clientearth.org/latest/press-o…

"The mere existence of ISDS is important as it acts as a deterrent.”
🚨CEO of @Chevron🚨
10isdsstories.org/cases/case5/ @TNInstitute @foeeurope @corporateeurope #StopISDS
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FREE HORROR COMIC about the Energy Charter Treaty
#NoECT #ExitECT

“..ambition of France’s much-respected Environment Minister was clearly killed by well-resourced corporate interests that used ISDS as one powerful secret weapon”10isdsstories.org/cases/case5/

@EmmanuelMacron with the Energy Charter Treaty
the Paris Agreeement is impossible #ExitECT

Remember that excellent piece @kbennhold interviewing Gerhard Schröder in the @nytimes?
🔥💀Dawn Of The ECT 💀🔥
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The FREE HORROR COMIC about the Energy Charter Treaty of course has to cover Putin, the Ukraine war and #Nordstream2
#EndFossilFuelProtection