Canada’s ‘ethical oil’ push gets tarred in British paper
Posted On November 28, 2011
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0 Canada made the front pages in Britain today, but not in a way that will do much for the national image.
“UK secretly helping Canada push its ‘dirty’ fuel,” reads the top-of-page headline in Monday’s Guardian. In the story picked up by several other papers, the London daily used an access-to-information request to unearth a series of memos in which Britain’s top officials promise to help Canada overturn a proposed European Union move to label Alberta oil-sands petroleum as a high-pollution product.