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Guardian: Britain has given its clearest signal yet that it wants to allow European countries to import carbon-intensive tar sands oil from Canada.
Leaked papers seen by the Guardian show that in EU negotiations on laws intended to encourage the use of low-carbon transport fuels, the UK has rejected language that would class tar sands oil as more polluting than conventional crude or other fuels.
The European commission has proposed labelling the oil as "highly polluting" under its fuel quality directive,......
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UK Signals Support for EU Import of Canadian Tar Sands Oil
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 17th, 2013
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