Keep Europe Out Of The Tar Sands! Re CETA

CETA New Report: Keep Europe Out of the Tar Sands!

Published by The Council of Canadians, Friends of the Earth Europe,
Indigenous Environmental Network, UK Tar Sands Network, January 2011

Canada´s tar sands are attracting global concern and criticism. The
tar sands have become one of the last frontiers for "Big Oil,"
including major European multinationals BP, Total and Shell. The
unfolding social and environmental disaster in Alberta demands urgent
action, including the respect of Indigenous rights, stronger
regulations on carbon emissions, water use and contamination, and
more. Yet the proposed Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic
and Trade Agreement (CETA), if completed as planned, threatens to
undermine stricter tar sands regulations in Canada and stronger
climate policies in Europe. This is confirmed in legal analysis
prepared for the Council of Canadians and The Indigenous
Environmental Network based on draft CETA text....

For full report see:
http://canadians.org/trade/documents/CETA/briefing-CETA-tarsands.pdf