Category: Fuel Quality Directive

U.S. joins Canada and oil industry’s lobbying offensive to keep Europe open to oilsands imports

By agreenerlifeagreenerworld on August 22, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

By guest contributor Derek Leahy For five long years the federal government and the oil industry have lobbied against the European Union labeling oilsands (also called tar sands) bitumen as ‘dirty oil’ […]

Oilsands in the EU: European Union has received its first bitumen shipment

By agreenerlifeagreenerworld on June 10, 2014 • ( 2 Comments )

Image credit: Transport Canada By guest contributor Derek Leahy At the end of May (29th of May) an oil tanker carrying between 500,000 and 600,000 barrels of western Canadian oilsands (also called […]

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