The Charter Court has agreed to hear the question the whole Accord has avoided: may a treaty power lawfully throttle a settlement's energy share to enforce a debt or a bill? After the rectenna blackout, both sides want a ruling — the established regions to legitimize the leverage, the settlements to outlaw it. The Assembly of Signatories, as ever one crisis behind consensus, is drafting a statute in case the Court declines to make law from the bench. Enforcement is thin, legitimacy contested, and everyone remembers that the Accord holds only because the alternative is remembered too well. A single ruling could redraw the balance of power.
After the rectenna blackout, the case the Accord spent a generation avoiding will finally be heard, and both sides say they want it.