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Comment: Hypocrisy at the EU

October 17, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

Environmentalists on both sides of the Atlantic are aghast at the news the European Union (EU) is proposing to scrap a mandatory requirement to label tar sands crude as highly polluting. It’s a triumph of five years of lobbying by both the tar sands industry and the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, which […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: Alberta, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, CAPP, Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Environmentalist, EU, European Union, Greg Stringham, Julie Gelfand, oil sands, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, tar sands

Oil sands product finds way into Europe

October 16, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

The European Commission released a proposal requiring energy suppliers to reduce the carbon intensity of their fuels by 6 percent by 2020 as well as disclose those products’ greenhouse gas emissions. That falls short of a previous plan that would have labeled fuels from oil sands processed in Canada and elsewhere as “dirty.” “It is […]

Filed Under: Alberta, Canada, International, News Tagged With: Alberta, Canada’s environment commissione, Connie Hedegaard, EU members, European Commission, European Union, greenhouse gas emission, Julie Gelfand, oil sands, tar sands, Western Canadian heavy crude

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