Appreciation thread for President Barack Obama~

[rhett o rick]

37. Dear sheshe. We don't have to see the final draft. What we've seen so far tells

us as much as we need to know. After years the current draft doesn't favor the 99% and the Pres has been involved all the way. It's not conceivable that what we've seen would change 180 degrees in the final draft. Mitch McConnell likes what he's seen. Unions are against it.

Environmentalists are against it.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Would Threaten the Environment - Affecting the Water We Drink and the Air We Breathe

The TPP could sharply increase U.S. exports of natural gas - creating incentives for more fracking. The Department of Energy could lose its authority to regulate exports of natural gas to countries that have signed a "free trade" agreement with the U.S. that includes "national treatment for trade in gas." The TPP could eliminate the government's prerogative to determine whether the mass export of natural gas to TPP countries - including Japan, the world's largest natural gas importer - is in the public interest. The resulting surge in natural gas exports would not only raise gas and electricity prices for consumers, but would ramp up the dangerous, chemical-laden practice of fracking.

http://www.exposethetpp.org/TPPImpacts_TheEnvironment.html