TPP Opponents Plan To Use Keystone XL Case To Illustrate Deal’s Perils

Environmentalists opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership on June 27 pledged to use TransCanada's $15 billion lawsuit against the U.S. government under the North American Free Trade Agreement in their grassroots lobbying to illustrate the perils of the current U.S. trade model. TransCanada’s June 24 decision to file suit against the Obama administration’s decision to reject the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline under the NAFTA investor-state dispute settlement mechanism is an easy illustration of how these trade agreements favor the interests...