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Climate Roadblocks

21 Mar 2016

These pipelines the U S. and 11 Pacific Rim countries that Congress some of the world’s largest fossil fuel firms to use cross at least 29 states in nearly every region of may consider this year— and the Transatlantic THREATS TO EFFORTS TO RESTRICT ISDS to challenge U S. policies to keep fossil fuels the country: the West Coast, the Great Plains, Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) — a broad O [...] And National Grid, the largest gas distributor Like NAFTA, the TPP and TTIP would give foreign OVERALL THREATS in the Northeast, is taking part in a pipeline corporations broad rights, including the right to • TTIP would empower oil and gas corporations • The TPP and TTIP would more than double expansion to pump more fracked gas through challenge new fossil fuel restrictions that thwart their that [...] The two Peabody Energy 36 Many of the fossil fuel corporations that would be gas extraction were the basis of half of the new ISDS deals would newly grant ISDS rights to more than empowered to use ISDS under the TPP and TTIP Indeed, 45 of the 50 private corporations responsible cases launched in 2014 22 100 foreign fossil fuel corporations that own more have U S. investments with significant clima [...] The final TPP text in the Gulf of Mexico and gas and oil fracking virtually replicates the most dangerous elements operations in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana 30 TTIP, of the ISDS system and includes no meaningful meanwhile, would enable ISDS challenges from safeguards to shield environmental policies from Netherlands-based Shell, the largest holder among corporate challenges 38 And while the Eur [...] The corporation gets and for expanded use of gas.78 Influence Map, flotillas and rappelled off a bridge to confront Shell the greatest amount of U S. seabed in the Arctic, the also owns property in 45 of the 48 continental a United Kingdom organization that tracks corpo- ships headed for the Arctic to drill for oil 174 Two Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific.
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