December 2nd, 2013
Undermining Local Democracy: Fast Track, the TPP and Your Community
While communities across the United States fight against the negative effects of expanded fracking for natural gas, the White House is negotiating a secret trade deal with 12 Pacific Rim countries that could undermine those efforts. Local efforts to put in place bans and other measures as well as local efforts to fight liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals could be overturned or become vulnerable to challenge under the proposed trade deal.