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Baobab

(4,667 posts) Sat Mar 19, 2016, 09:14 AM Mar 2016

TTIP-ISDS Fracking Briefing

https://www.foeeurope.org/sites/default/files/publications/foee_ttip-isds-fracking-060314.pdf

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TTIP-ISDS Fracking Briefing (Original Post) Baobab Mar 2016 OP

This is disgusting and alarming. djean111 Mar 2016 #1

djean111

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1. This is disgusting and alarming.

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Sat Mar 19, 2016, 09:22 AM

Mar 2016

Investor states will take precedence over the well-being of sovereign countries, and people.

It may seem unbelievable but under NAFTA, Lone Pine’s right to make a profit may be more important than the right to clean water or the right of communities to say no to destructive extractive projects like fracking

And the TPP and TTIP double and triple down on that.

I won't vote for a candidate who is in favor of these things, voted for them, or enthusiastically shilled for them.

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