This briefing note, prepared for the Minister of Natural Resources, helps explain why letters from NRCan often accompany letters from Canadian politicians lobbying against good climate policy, like California’s LCFS. The note discusses the image of Canada’s « dirty » tar sands […]
While one of the purposes of the LCFS is to move away from dirty fossil fuels and encourage investment in alternative fuels, the Ambassador of Canada claims that assigning a different carbon intensity to tar sands oil than conventional oil […]
« Together, skyrocketing construction costs, falling crude prices, increasingly vocal opposition from some native groups, and a little known section of the 2007 U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act all threaten growth projections in northern Alberta. » Read more……..
« The current Canadian government, which draws its political and financial support from petroleum-producing regions in the West, is not seen as independent from oil interests. In July alone, oil sands companies held a total of 36 meetings with Canadian ministers […]
This article is about section 526 in which it explores the major role of Canada’s oil production and its exports to the US. The Government of Canada’s talking points are very similar to those used by the Republicans in the […]
This NRDC briefing document from May 2008 gives a good background on the Low Carbon Fuel Standard. « Backgrounder: Low Carbon Fuel Standards and High Carbon Tar Sands Fuels. » NRDC. May 2008.
Letter from American environmental organizations supporting section 526 of Energy Independence and Security Act.
This is the itinerary for Ron Stevens’, Deputy Premier and Minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations for Alberta, mission to Washington. Itinerary says he was going to meet the Center for Unconventional Fuels, regarding section 526 of U.S. Energy Independence […]
Henry Waxman is the author of section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. In this letter, Waxman writes « The provision is also applicable to fuels derived from tar sands, which produce significantly higher greenhouse gas emissions […]
In this letter, Michael Wilson conveys the Government of Canada’s views on section 526 of the U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. Wilson writes that Section 526 was not meant to be interpreted to apply to the oil […]
