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Sommaire – Sale diplomatie pétrolière : La campagne mondiale de promotion des sables bitumineux du gouvernement du Canada
Christian Holz Posted On March 8, 2012


This is the French Version of the Executive Summary of the new report, Dirty Oil Diplomacy – The Canadian Government’s Global Push to Sell the Tar Sands, which outlines the changing domestic and international policies of the Canadian government as they […]


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You can’t take the tar sands out of the climate equation
hannah Posted On February 28, 2012


Andrew Weaver and Neil Swart of the University of Victoria are surely about to receive a major award from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), the Alberta government and even the Canadian government for their just-released paper in Nature […]


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Climate Action Network Canada reaction to Fuel Quality Directive vote
hannah Posted On February 23, 2012


Unprecedented lobbying by the Canadian Government in a technical discussion on the European Union’s Fuel Quality Directive has resulted in the decision being passed to the Ministerial level. In response to this outcome Hannah McKinnon, Campaign Director at Climate Action […]


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Eight Nobel laureates join forces in EU climate push
hannah Posted On February 16, 2012


16 February 2012, For immediate release Brussels – Eight Nobel Peace Prize laureates have written to European Heads of State and Ministers of the Environment urging them to tackle the most climate polluting sources of transport fuel, notably tar sands. […]


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Climate Action Network Canada background and response to Nobel Peace Laureates’ letter in support of EU climate policy
hannah Posted On February 16, 2012


Background: Eight Nobel Peace Laureates have written to EU Heads of State and Environment Ministers encouraging them to continue to show climate leadership by ensuring passage of a key piece of European policy designed to reduce greenhouse gas pollution from […]


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Feds hid names of big oil companies at lobbying retreat
hannah Posted On February 14, 2012


OTTAWA — The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade has deliberately attempted to conceal key details about a taxpayer-funded lobbying training retreat it organized last year in London, England for its European diplomats to promote the oilsands, including names […]


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Oil Lobbying for Dummies: Diplomats trained at London retreat on how to promote oilsands
hannah Posted On February 12, 2012


Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade was tight-lipped this weekend about a taxpayer-funded two-day retreat, staged last year in London, England, involving its federal bureaucrats, Canadian diplomats, the Alberta government and the oil industry. The meeting was designed as […]


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Pro-oil lobby retreat urges feds to deliver climate-change solutions
hannah Posted On February 12, 2012


OTTAWA — A taxpayer-funded pro-oil lobbying retreat, involving Canada’s European diplomats and industry, has urged the federal government to deliver real climate change solutions to restore the country’s sagging environmental reputation. The two-day retreat, held last February 1 and 2 […]


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Green groups slam big oil on ‘lobby-busting’ tour
hannah Posted On February 8, 2012


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 […]


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Lobby Busting Tour of EU Embassies Debunks Tar Sands Misconceptions
hannah Posted On February 7, 2012


The Council of Canadians, Climate Action Network Canada and the Indigenous Environmental Network have been meeting with Ottawa-based European Union Embassies to counteract Canadian lobbying against an important European climate policy. “Canadian lobbying against the EU Fuel Quality Directive is […]


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