Green groups slam big oil on ‘lobby-busting’ tour

OTTAWA — A powerful Canadian oil and gas industry group has been systematically lobbying European embassies in recent months against proposed climate change legislation that discourages high-polluting transportation fuels such as crude oil from the oilsands sector, environmental groups said Tuesday.

The groups said they discovered the latest lobbying efforts during a series of meetings with ambassadors or deputy heads of embassies from at least eight different countries that are now finalizing a policy that is designed to reduce heat-trapping emissions from transportation as part of Europe’s plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change. Read more…