The New Corporate Assault on the Environment

Based on the existing NAFTA model, the FTAA and GATTS that are now being negotiated could give global corporations the power to:

1. Reduce government control over oil drilling, water extraction, waste incineration, hotel and resort development, and businesses in national parks?
2. Weaken drinking water standards, toxic waste labeling laws, renewable energy laws, pesticide application regulations, and many other environmental laws?
3. Take control of water supplies, water delivery systems, and other natural resources?
4. These new trade agreements cover "services" like toxic waste processing, mining, water diversion and extraction, oil drilling, pipeline transport, tourism operations, shipping, hotel construction, incineration of waste and natural resource management.

Read More

• CAFTA and the Environment
• Sierra Club FTAA Toolkit
•    10 Environmental NGO's Outline Their Opposition to CAFTA
• Save Our Services: #2 Protecting Our Environment, GTW
• Trading Away Our Environment: The Free trade Area of the Americas, Friends of the Earth
• Trading Away Our Environment: The Free trade Area of the Americas, No to “Free Trade”/Free Market Plans, Latin America Solidarity Conference and Action for Social and Ecological Justice
• GATS and FTAA Services Rules: Q&A, Aliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment
• A Disservice to the Earth: The Environmental Impact of the General Agreement on Trade in Services, Friends of the Earth
• Articles on how trade policies affect EnvironmentalGroups
• Trucks' Impact on Air Feared, Los Angeles Daily News, June 26, 2004
• Bill Seeks to Curb Polluting Mexican Trucks, Los Angeles Times, June 22, 2004
  Supreme Court Fails Working Families, Sets Path for Border to Open to Unsafe Trucks
• Read the press release from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, June 7, 2004
• Justices OK Bush Policy on Mexican Trucks, Associated Press, June 7, 2004
   
  
  

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