The European Commission triggered a potential dispute with Canada October 4 by proposing that EU legislation consider fuel derived from oil sands to be 22.3 percent more GHG intensive than fuel from conventional crude oil. The rating is part of the commission’s implementation of the EU’s 2009 Fuel Quality Directive, which requires the transportation fuel life-cycle emissions by be reduced by 6 percent by 2020.
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