Common Contracts
1 similar null contracts
ARTICLESMarch 29th, 2011
On April 2, 1984, representatives of the United States and Canada signed an agreement2 that ended a forty-two year dispute over the construction of a dam.3 The agreement provided that the United States would not raise the height of a hydroelectric dam in exchange for a long term supply of power from Canada at the price that it would have cost to build the dam.4 After the protracted forty-two year dispute, both sides were pleased—the United States obtained inexpensive power, and Canada saved its pristine wilderness from flooding.5 The outcome was a success. Notably, the process had been described as both ―at odds with the usual evolution of international
