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Taxing tar sands, chasing Goliath

2013-10-24 14:37:59| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Daily Climate: I could not help thinking of David versus Goliath earlier this week as I was working on a letter to Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission. I was writing about the tax that Europe applies to unconventional fossil fuels in its Fuel Quality Directive: Will it account for all the emissions during the mining and processing of such fuels or will they pretend that energy from tar sands and oil shale is the same as conventional oil? It matters a lot. Fees tacked to oil from tar...

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