The
Trans-Pacific Partnership 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 also 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. Learn more at
http://www.exposethetpp.org/
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