The New Russian Initiative on Energy Transit - Should it replace the Energy Charter Treaty?
Article from: OGEL 4 (2014), in The Energy Charter Treaty
Introduction
This article is being written at a time when the issue of energy security has become critical in the quest to attain sustainable development for the world. The drive to guarantee secure sources of energy has encountered a lot of challenges. The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) is one of the legal solutions to the challenges. Even at that, the ECT itself is faced with severe challenges which have made some to query its relevance. This research will look at some of the salient provisions of the ECT and compare them with the provisions of the proposed Russian legal framework on energy ...