BRUSSELS TABLES NEW FUEL QUALITY DIRECTIVE FORMULA – OIL SANDS STILL RECOGNISED AS DIRTIER
October 1st, 2014
THE EUROPEAN Commission will once more try to persuade European Union (EU) member states to approve a technical formula for assessing how member states reduce by 6% carbon emissions associated with transport fuel production and use. Under the EU’s 2009 fuel quality directive, this is supposed to be achieved by 2020, but agreement has not been secured on measuring this reduction. In its latest proposal, the Commission has proposed that refiners log an average emissions rate, considering all feedstocks used in their output. This changes previous proposals ...
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