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EXPOSED: Canada's secret tar sands lobbying of UK ministers

Posted by petespeller - 27 November 2011 at 1:29am - 4 Comments
Syncrude Oil Operations in Alberta Tar Sands
All rights reserved. Credit: Jiri Rezac / Greenpeace
View of smoke plumes emitted from the Syncrude upgrader plant north of Fort McMurray.

Documents obtained by The Cooperative and Friends of the Earth Europe through Freedom of Information requests and shared with Greenpeace reveal numerous high-level meetings between Canadian ministers, oil executives and British government officials focused on the UK’s position on a new EU policy that would significantly restrict tar sands oil coming into Europe.