If BHP had purchased Potash Corp., Canadians would have still benefited from jobs, tax revenues and royalties, and would have still enjoyed
sovereignty over the resource itself — just not the company mining it.
Not exact matches
The problem of the
sovereignty of the nation state will be at the heart of this working area and, closely linked to
sovereignty will arise two other questions: that of citizenship (
over and above nationality) and of property (struggle against the private appropriation of material and immaterial
resources by «intellectual property rights»; the redefinition of state property; the development on an inter-national, supra - national and world level of new forms of socialisation, of public ownership, and of mutualisation of the property).
We declared national
sovereignty over our natural
resources and tweaked the tail of Britain by nationalising British Petroleum assets in Nigeria.
That mechanism probably will not help solve the type of problem that emerged last week when Queensland declared «
sovereignty»
over its plants and animals in an attempt to ensure that profits from genetic
resources went to the local government (see This Week).
[66] The honour of the Crown arises «from the Crown's assertion of
sovereignty over an Aboriginal people and de facto control of land and
resources that were formerly in the control of that people.
It was argued that international human rights standards should be respected, including the right of peoples to
sovereignty over natural
resources.96 They stated «
sovereignty is the only adequate response required, at a macro level, to solve problems in the long term and is the only viable and sustainable solution».
A further component of self - determined development for Indigenous people is the recognition of their
sovereignty over land and
resources.
The human right to development also implies the full realization of the right of peoples to self - determination, which includes, subject to the relevant provisions of both International Covenants on Human Rights, the exercise of their inalienable right to full
sovereignty over all their natural wealth and
resources.
The General Assembly noted the «right to development» implies the full realization of the right of peoples to self - determination, including the exercise of their inalienable right to full
sovereignty over all their natural wealth and
resources.
Just as a right of international law to innocent passage does not undermine the
sovereignty of the coastal state
over the territorial sea (66)(nor its right to regulate the exercise of innocent passage in respect of a number of matters), (67) nor should the right of innocent passage prejudice Indigenous claims in the respect of the use, management and control of their sea territories and
resources.