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In February 2020, the director of the corporation, Goga Tatishvilii, told Radio Tavisupleba that the company fired up to 90 employees following the strike.
The president of Frontera Resources, Zaza Mamulashvili, told Radio Tavisupleba this was not true that the company owed only several monthsâ salary to its employees.
âTheir people were encouraged by the Ministry of Economy and by Mr Tatishvili. We donât even know most of these people who appear on TV and pose some demands. Several of them are our employeesâ, said Mamulashvili.
âA while ago, some of them on their own, others by our demand, left our company. They donât work for us. How can they be on strike?â
Fronteraâs lobbyists in US Congress
Georgia has accused Frontera of violating the terms of their contract by refusing to return to the state land they were no longer using for extraction.
In January 2018, Georgia filed an appeal against Frontera at the International Arbitration Tribunal. Frontera responded with a counterclaim, claiming $3.5 billion in damages.
In April 2020, the government claimed that the tribunal had upheld âthe vast majorityâ of their claims.
Frontera has disputed this and insisted they are pleased with the tribunal results, which are not public.
Since then, the government has threatened to terminate their contract with Frontera, although they later took a more conciliatory approach.
The dispute has led to a number of highly critical comments from US legislators aimed at the government and the ruling Georgian Dream party.
In January 2020, several US legislators sent letters to Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia accusing the Georgian Government of âaggressive actions against US companiesâ.
âFor the first time in Georgiaâs modern history, your country has been cast in a negative and cautionary light with respect to appropriation from the US Governmentâ, Republican representative Markwayne Mullin wrote on 17 January.
âThe result is that foreign direct investment in Georgia is on the decline because US and European business interests have been subjected to harassment and expropriation attacks. The oil and gas company from Houston, Texas, Frontera Resources, is a notable example of thisâ, the letter said.
In another letter, republican representative Brian Babin wrote that members of the congress were concerned about ânotable increasing negative trend in Georgiaâs democratic and free-market economic indicatorsâ.
He reiterated Mullinâs concerns over Frontera Resources.
Speaking in the house of representatives in January, Pete Olson criticised the Georgian government and defended Frontera.
âComing from Texas, Frontera Resources has been drilling in Georgia for years and years and years. Theyâve created great jobs in America, great jobs in Georgia. Theyâve created freedom. That was, until the government took over all their operations, all the equipment. Now they are drilling zero wells in Georgiaâ, said O
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