Europe’s trade and climate chiefs are preparing to take a stand against imports of oil from Canada’s polluting tar sands, despite fears the move might wreck a multi-billion dollar trade deal, according to EU sources and documents. Read more….
Canada has threatened to scrap a trade deal with the European Union if the EU persists with plans that would block imports of Canada’s highly polluting tar sands, according to documents and sources. Read more….
This document is the Proposal for Evaluating Upstream GHG emissions of Tar Sands as Feedstock for a notional European Refinery as defined for the JEC Well-to-Wheel Study. It conveys two main tasks both of which centre around reviewing the GHG […]
Canada’s exports of oil, gas, hydro and uranium are becoming more lucrative and desirable as protests continue in Egypt and the middle East. The timing is significant, with the U.S. poised to soon decide on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, […]
E-mail report on Pan European Oil Sands Team Meeting with outlines of participants including various industry representatives. Includes industry call for Canadian regulations.
This is a copy of the itinerary for Alberta Minister of Energy, Ron Liepert, for his visit to Europe. Included in his itinerary are scheduled meetings with oil and industry representatives and the Pan European Oil Sands Team. Original source […]
This report released by Stanford University details the relationship between crude oil derived from the Canadian tar-sands in comparison to crude oil refinery feedstock in the EU. As well the detailed report provides scientific evidence and background into tar-sands production, […]
By John Farrell This paper details Ontario’s FIT and Micro-FIT policies. It illustrates the contributions and opportunities these policies create that increase environmental and fiscal sustainability while providing local job opportunities as well as promoting economic growth. Explains current provincial […]
On Feb. 10 this year, two Canadian government officials appeared before a public hearing in Wisconsin to deliver a solemn warning. The state was then considering adoption of broad climate change legislation designed to generate tens of thousands of green […]
Canada’s campaign to kill climate policies outside our boarders. Over the last few years, Canada’s federal government has systematically tried to kill clean energy and climate change policies in other countries in order to promote the interests of oil companies. […]
This letter from a group of Members of European Parliament to the Commissioner for climate action, Connie Hedegaard, expresses their concern with the removal of a specified carbon intensity value for tar sands oil. They argue that this defeats the […]
While NRCan is trying to position itself as having a balanced view of the issue (see document “Draft NRCan Oil Sands Communications Plan”), this analysis makes clear where their priority lies. Instead of taking action to reduce the impact dirty […]
