Canadian minister takes fight for oil sands crude to Europe

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Canadian minister takes fight for oil sands crude to Europe

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/canadian-minister-takes-fight-oil-sands-crude-europe-130404711.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/KivuQTldN49jDogDuzuI8g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-05-05T130404Z_1_CBRE94410AY00_RTROPTP_2_CBUSINESS-US-EUROPE-OILSANDS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Canada's Natural Resources Minister Oliver speaks in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa" align="left" title="Canada's Natural Resources Minister Oliver speaks in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa" border="0" /></a>By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - A European Union plan to label crude from the Alberta oil sands as dirty is unfair and could damage Canada's bid to find new export markets, the Canadian resources minister said at the start of a mission to lobby against the idea. As part of a plan to cut greenhouse gases from transport fuel, the EU's executive commission has developed a Fuel Quality Directive that would single out oil from Alberta's tar sands as more polluting than conventional crude. Canada, whose oil sands are the world's third-largest proven reserves of crude, strongly opposes the ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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