Green groups lobby embassies on EU fuel

Published February 7, 2012

Environmentalists are taking the public relations war over the oil sands to embassies, furiously lobbying diplomats to counter the efforts of oil officials and the Harper government who are trying to reverse a European proposal to classify oil sands crude as particularly dirty.

By Feb. 3, representatives from the Council of Canadians, Climate Action Network Canada and the Indigenous Environmental Network...