Sierra Club launches ad buy in CA, WA, and OR
CALIFORNIA / WASHINGTON / OREGON –(ENEWSPF)—April 27, 2015. The Sierra Club launched a targeted ad campaign in California, Washington, and Oregon today, exposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership for its complete lack of transparency and its potential to wreak havoc on the health of our air, water, and communities. The ads point to the proposed deal’s secrecy as well as its provisions that would expedite dangerous fossil fuel exports and extraction and give broad new powers to corporations and big polluters to attack clean air, water,and climate safeguards. The media buy includes radio, billboard, transit, and online advertisements that will run through the end of May.
“We’re bringing a secret trade deal into the light of day by showing how the Trans-Pacific Partnership threatens our health, our jobs, and our environment,” said Ilana Solomon, director of the Sierra Club’s Responsible Trade Program. “The TPP will impact every aspect of our lives — from shipping jobs overseas to threatening the air we breathe and the water we drink. We’re mobilizing our core strength — our grassroots power — and helping spread the word to shed light on a toxic trade deal.”
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), currently under negotiation between the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations behind closed doors, has drawn criticism from labor unions, leaders in Congress like Senator Elizabeth Warren, food safety groups, open internet advocates, and more.
Many environmental groups are particularly concerned that multinational corporations — including some of the world’s biggest polluters — could use provisions in the TPP to sue governments, in private trade courts, over laws and policies that they claimed would reduce their profits. That means our clean air, clean water, and climate protections could be subject to attack just because corporations say they cut into their bottom lines. It would also require the Department of Energy to automatically approve all exports of natural gas to countries in the deal, leading to more dangerous fracking across America.
The outdoor advertisements are supported by local groups including 350 Seattle, Washington Fair Trade Coalition, and Got Green in Washington; Food and Water Watch, 350PDX, Oregon Fair Trade Campaign, Greenpeace, and Columbia Riverkeeper in Oregon; and WILPF Earth Democracy, CPATH, and SEIU 1000 in California.
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For more information on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, see this Sierra Club report.
You can listen to the radio ad here.
You can view samples of the outdoor ads here:
Source: www.sierraclub.org
