Guardian: Following in the UK's footsteps, the Netherlands is now working to derail a European Commission proposal to officially designate fuels from Canada's vast tar sands fields as highly polluting and discourage their use.
A secret proposal, which I have seen, means that instead of companies being responsible for curbing the overall carbon emissions of the transport fuels they sell, countries would be responsible. That would lead to the ludicrous and legally laughable situation that when one company......
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Revealed: Europe’s plan to penalise Canada’s tar sands goes Dutch
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 16th, 2012
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