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E.U.'s 'Dirty' Label On Oil Sands Narrowly Defeated European Parliament Vote
2014-12-18 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Canadian oilsands exporters narrowly survived a vote today in the European Parliament that could have once again labelled Alberta bitumen as dirty oil. A proposed fuel quality directive for European Union refineries has been the subject of a well-funded Canadian lobbying campaign for more than two years. Canadian negotiators thought the matter was settled this fall when the European Commission backed off and agreed to allow Canadian bitumen without singling it out as having a much more intense...
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