Protestors: Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership and incinerator for Baltimore’s Curtis Bay

Activists opposing the Keystone XL Pipeline project; a new incinerator for Baltimore’s Curtis Bay; and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) demonstrated in Baltimore Tuesday in front of the Penn Station. Opponents of the TPP, which is a proposed trade agreement, claim it’s “a gift to the oil and gas industry.”
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As for the proposed incinerator in Curtis Bay, environmentalists insist that it will “spew carcinogens into working class neighborhoods.”

Flush the TPP

Dr. Margaret Flowers
Dr. Margaret Flowers

With respect to the Keystone XL Pipeline, if completed, it will carry “toxic tar sands from under Canada’s Boreal forest 2000 miles [south] to the Gulf of Mexico,” according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. To learn more about these issues, click on the organization’s Facebook page and webpage.

Activist Margaret Flowers shared her views with respect to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP is a proposed free trade agreement.  Flowers labeled it “a gift to the oil and gas industry.”

She added that the ex-U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, who negotiated the agreement in secret, said that if the people knew what was in it, “that it would never be able to be signed.” To learn more click at the Popular Resistance webpage.

Nick Davenport also shared his views with respect to the highly controversial Keystone XL Pipeline. He opposes it. If completed, it will carry “toxic tar sands from under Canada’s Boreal forest 2000 miles [south] to the Gulf of Mexico,” he says. Davenport is associated with the Baltimore Ecosocilalist Alliance. To learn more about the issue check out this webpage.