Thanks to a trade agreement being negotiated in great secrecy, the gas and oil industry could get the green light to export “natural” gas to other countries, paving the way for more fracking.

The agreement will also elevate corporations to the status of nations, putting corporate interests before the health and safety of communities and workers. As negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) continue, please write or call President Obama and demand transparency. Tell him too that fracking has no place in our trade agreements.

Exporting liquefied natural gas will have far reaching impacts on communities across the country. In addition to increased fracking, pipelines carrying liquefied natural gas would cross the country to export facilities on our coasts. This means greater climate disruption from increased methane and CO2 emissions, more toxic air and water pollution, pipeline-related spills, and destruction of coastal and forest eco-systems.

Tell President Obama that no trade agreement should pave the way for increased fracking.

Use Citizens’ Trade Campaign letter to personalize your message. Read Truth-Out’s March 27, 2013 analysis (with links), and see Sierra Club TPP toolkit.

From Citizens Trade Campaign: “Troubled by continued secrecy in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Free Trade Agreement , over 400 civil society organizations representing more than 15 million Americans have written to Congress urging that Fast Track be replaced by a more democratic trade negotiating and approval process.  Led by Citizens Trade Campaign, more than 100 national organizations, including those representing labor, environmental, family farm, consumer, faith, public health, Native American and human rights constituencies, in addition to to nearly 300 regional, state and local organizations, sent a letter to Congress on March 4th outlining shared expectations for 21st Century trade agreements and urging an end to Fast Track and support for an alternative.”