Oil sands

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• EU scraps plan to label tar sands oil as highly polluting

  7 Oct 2014: Revised draft law on fuel quality directive removes obstacle to Canada shipping crude from tar sands to Europe

• North sea oil and economic independence

  8 Sep 2014: Letters: Many Greeks, Portuguese and other Europeans would no doubt refer the Scots to Keynes’s aphorism: ‘He who controls the currency controls the country’

• As Shell gears up to drill the Arctic, investors must ask serious questions

  Guardian Professional, 2 Sep 2014: The oil company has filed plans for offshore drilling but past safety blunders and operational failings in the region make it a high cost, high risk venture

• US State Department underestimates carbon pollution from Keystone XL

  28 Aug 2014: John Abraham: Business researchers correct some (but not all) State Department errors in estimating Keystone carbon emissions
  

• Keystone XL carbon emissions 'would be four times higher than US thought'

  11 Aug 2014: Canada-US oil pipeline could wipe out reductions from carbon cuts elsewhere, suggests paper in Nature Climate Change

• 'We can repel this snake' – the visionary battle over Canada's eastern tar sands pipelines

  11 Jun 2014: Martin Lukacs: A video of a 700km protest march across Quebec shows the economic and environmental case against pipelines carrying Alberta's tar sands

• First major tar sands oil shipment arrives in Europe amid protests

  6 Jun 2014: 570,000 barrels of oil from Canada arrives in Bilbao, Spain, as EU considers dropping plan to label tar sands oil as dirty

• $1tn oil projects 'will not see return' if governments act on climate – report

  8 May 2014:

  Capital investment will never see a return if world's governments fulfil climate change pledge, says Carbon Tracker group

• Canada becoming launch-pad of a global tar sands and oil shale frenzy

  16 Apr 2014: Martin Lukacs: A worldwide extreme energy boom, modelled after Canada's, is unleashing weapons of mass ecological destruction

• We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet

  10 Apr 2014: Desmond Tutu: We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters

• Spain's oil deposits and fracking sites trigger energy gold rush

  26 Mar 2014: Major offshore oil discoveries and prospects for shale gas extraction are generating excitement – and resistance

• Keystone XL protesters arrested after strapping selves to White House fence

  2 Mar 2014: Around 200 marchers, mostly college students, were arrested for their part in a Sunday protest

• Keystone XL: Nebraska judge invalidates governor's pipeline approval

  19 Feb 2014: Judge says Governor Dave Heineman shouldn’t have had the final say on whether the oil pipeline can pass through his state

• Keystone XL unites environmentalists and landowners in pipeline battle

  1 Feb 2014: Lawsuit and protests aim to put issue on midterm election agenda as focus of campaign moves to Nebraska

• Keystone XL pipeline closer to reality after State Department review

  31 Jan 2014: Final decision rests with Barack Obama but review says no 'significant' effect on carbon emissions is likely

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