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The Trans-Pacific Partnership is so bad, it's hard to believe -- but this stunning part of the deal has been independently confirmed:
The TPP would eliminate environmental reviews of fracked liquid natural gas export facilities, which could be used to move half of the gas drilled in the US overseas. These massive, multibillion dollar fossil fuel projects would make fracking companies a fortune -- and be completely exempt from federal environmental review.
Fracked gas is difficult and expensive to export. The TPP would rubber stamp facilities that make it easier for Big Oil to ship gas to places where they can sell it at higher pricesThe Trans-Pacific Partnership is so bad, it's hard to believe -- but this stunning part of the deal has been independently confirmed:
The TPP would eliminate environmental reviews of fracked liquid natural gas export facilities, which could be used to move half of the gas drilled in the US overseas. These massive, multibillion dollar fossil fuel projects would make fracking companies a fortune -- and be completely exempt from federal environmental review.
Fracked gas is difficult and expensive to export. The TPP would rubber stamp facilities that make it easier for Big Oil to ship gas to places where they can sell it at higher prices
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Every call you make to your Reps, Sens and WH is worth 4,000 constituents voices, so call.
Whitehouse Comments: 202-456-1111
United States Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121
marym625
(17,997 posts)That's good information! I will first thing Monday
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)So I picked Joyce
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Was just going for a smile
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Thanks, marym
marym625
(17,997 posts)Thanks Joyce!
Shirley!
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Agony
(2,605 posts)That you bang your head in frustration about fracking and yet support Secretary of State Clinton for President and have a "Hillary for America" sig icon while she is and has been arguably a serious proponent of fracking?
http://grist.org/climate-energy/8-things-you-need-to-know-about-hillary-clinton-and-climate-change/
How do you square that circle?
Yours truly in frustration over fracking (and the tenuous ban in NYS) and frack gas storage in NYS (http://gasfreeseneca.com) and frack waste pouring across the PA border into NYS (http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/02/06/3620219/fracking-waste-disposed-in-new-york/)
Agony
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Agony
(2,605 posts)that is why I am asking how you square that circle?
All indications are that Hillary is a strong proponent of hydrofracking.
That must be very frustrating.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)I don't always agree on every issue with her.
Hopefully she will change her view.
Cuomo sc0hocked me as well.
cali
(114,904 posts)that add a tiny bit of accountability.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Policy_Act_of_2005
djean111
(14,255 posts)Hey, who's got our backs, baby?!
enough
(13,268 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Go down to "sources"
Also
http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/09/25/what-secretly-negotiated-TPP-free-trade-agreement-means-fracking
And
https://www.hcn.org/articles/trade-winds-blow-through-the-west
All links came with the email posted in the OP
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)They might be good with the science of climate change, but their political stuff is about as trust worthy as the NRA.
cali
(114,904 posts)and not just little old you saying it.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)Looks like people who can be trusted.
In fact I don't trust very many DC politicians right now of either party.
http://350.org/
cali
(114,904 posts)on climate change.
eridani
(51,907 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)They also have no understanding of the ISDS process and print the same junk people post here. It's like everybody is just coying and pasting the same misinformation.
marym625
(17,997 posts)This treaty will be the end of the US as we know it.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)Thespian2
(2,741 posts)North America is screwed...again...
hunter
(38,340 posts)It's a fracking marketing term.
Fossil fuels are destroying the "spaceship earth" we know.
We're all riding a rocket to hell.
Some cabins on this spaceship are already burning.
But many in the comfortable well insulated air-conditioned first class cabins will be the last to know, especially those who lock down the hatches against the refugees in the hallways.
Still, they'll burn like the rest of us, even if they manage to avoid the pitchfork and torches angry human mobs.
Mother Nature pays no attention to their wealth, their political power, or their imaginary gods.
Innovative species on this planet come and go. We humans are just not that special.
It seems likely we humans will be short-timers in earth's geologic record.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)geez people ,,,, Everybody claiming what in it and it doesn't even exist yet......
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)- Signed, the BOG
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)Their track record is way better than the people defending the TPP because Obama is for it - as are most republicans of course but the Obama right or wrong crowd pays that no mind.