Revealed: Europe’s plan to penalise Canada’s tar sands goes Dutch | Damian Carrington

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Revealed: Europe’s plan to penalise Canada’s tar sands goes Dutch | Damian Carrington

The Netherlands, home of oil giant Shell, puts forward a secret compromise to weaken the plan’s impact on fuel from tar sands. But both greens and the Canadian government condemn itFollowing 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.