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29/1/2013
Canada's urgent hunt for buyers for its oil is being thwarted as the
European Commission sticks to a plan to
label fuel from
tar sands deposits as highly polluting, deterring refiners bound by environmental rules.
Intense pressure from ...
11/10/2012
Last winter, fossil-fuel enthusiasts began trumpeting the dawn of a new "golden age of oil" that would kick-start the American economy, generate millions of new jobs, and free this country from its dependence on imported petroleum. Ed Morse, head ...
24/2/2012
Discriminating against
tar sands in the name of curbing carbon emissions makes sense, but is also a distraction from a bigger question about how much fossil fuel humankind can safely burn.
A calculation of the carbon dioxide emissions ...
23/2/2012
Years of fierce lobbying against draft EU rules that would
label fuel from
tar sands as more polluting than from other sources produced a stalemate on Thursday when a committee of technical experts failed to agree on the proposal.
The ...
23/2/2012
Canada hailed the
European Union's failure on Thursday to classify
tar sands crude as particularly dirty, but Ottawa made it clear it would take trade action if the EU did end up singling out Canadian oil.
A meeting of EU technical ...
23/2/2012
An EU vote on Thursday on a draft law to
label fuel from
tar sands as highly polluting is likely to produce a stalemate, EU sources said, marking a draw in a long lobbying tussle between oil giant Canada and environmentalists.
Among ...
23/2/2012
The
European Union failed to
label oil produced from
tar sands as highly polluting on Thursday, with a key vote by member states ending in deadlock.
The issue is seen as a key test of the EU's ability to implement its climate change ...
23/2/2012
A fierce battle over whether the
European Union will officially
label oil produced from
tar sands as highly polluting comes to a head on Thursday with a crucial vote.
The issue is seen as a key test of the EU's ability to implement its ...
22/2/2012
BAD year for Canada's
tar sands. The US rejected the Keystone XL pipeline that would have carried fuel south, and now the
European Union is poised to
label tar bitumen more polluting than other forms of oil. That would rule out selling it to ...
20/2/2012
Canada has threatened a trade war with
European Union over the bloc's plan to
label oil from Alberta's vast
tar sands as highly polluting, the Guardian can reveal, before a key vote in Brussels on 23 February.
"Canada will not hesitate ...
31/5/2011
A certain powerful North American country has been brazenly meddling in
Europe's affairs, bullying and twisting arms to advance a corporate agenda on the most pressing environmental issue of our time. A phalanx of its lobbyists has descended on ...
29/3/2011
An attempt to classify
tar sands oil as more environmentally-damaging than conventional oil would effectively ban its sale within
European Member States
The
European Union is moving to prevent
tar sands oil from entering the
European ...
28/3/2011
The
European Union is preparing to slap a dirty fuel
label on Canada's oil
sands, a move that would increase political pressure on
Europe's major oil companies to curb their investments in the Alberta projects.
The Conservative ...
27/11/2009
Stephen Harper has changed his mind, reversed his field and is now going to the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen.
He didn't want to do it. Climate change is becoming the most divisive issue in this country since the fight over ...
1/4/2001
GEORGE BUSH IS PRACTICING POOR ECONOMICS ON CLIMATE CHANGE: HE MADE THE WRONG DECISION U.S. President George W. Bush said, "I will not let greenhouse gas reduction harm the economy and jobs of the United States," adding that he, "will ...