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 […]
This document from Transport and Environment highlights the importance of how Article 7a of the Fuel Quality Directive is implemented. Ensuring carbon reductions from fuel production: How the EU should implement Article 7a of the Fuel Quality Directive.” Transport and […]
The objective in this document is to inform members of the EU as to the state of certain areas related to the FQD, including progress on methods of calculating GHG emissions from certain fuel sources and GHG intensity baselines to […]
ENGO letter to Commissioner Connie Hedegaard re: Implementation of Article 7a of the Fuel Quality Directive. March 22, 2010.
This leaked document contains no default value for tar sands, apparently because of the pressure and lobbying of the Canadian government. Later iterations of this document had the tar sands value returned.
“Consultation paper on the measures necessary for the implementation of Article 7a(5).” European Commission.
This letter was one of two documents submitted by Canada under the consultation process of non EU states for Article 7a of the Fuel Quality Directive. The letter argues against “favouring” certain crude oils, i.e. it argues that tar sands […]
EU Policy / NGO briefing document (under Article 7a consultation) This report was also submitted under the consultation process for Article 7a. It stresses the importance of having differentiated carbon intensity values. While Canada’s lobbying efforts were aimed at stopping […]
This consultation paper proposes a default value for tar sands oil of 107 GHG (gCO2eq)/MJ. Canada’s lobbying efforts have been to have this default value removed. A leaked document showed that they were temporarily successful (see document “non-paper on FQD […]
This is another letter to the California Air Resources Board. The letter demonstrates a pattern of behaviour where the Canadian Government and Alberta Government are working together to undermine progressive climate policy, like the LCFS. Kevin Stringer also wrote a […]
