Tar sands oil is the dirtiest, most polluting form of oil that exists.

The UK govt is trying to block legislation that forbids European

oil companies from extracting tar sand oil in Canada.

"Mining for tar sands is wrecking the Canadian boreal forest, destroying

 the homelands of indigenous people, and accelerating dangerous climate

 change.

To extract the tar, oil companies destroy the Canadian boreal forest, gouge

out hundreds of metres of top soil, and turn the landscape into a gaping

black pit. Two tonnes of earth has to be dug up and processed to produce

each barrel of tar sands oil.

Worst of all, tar sands oil creates three times the emissions per barrel that

you would get from normal crude. There's no way tar sands oil makes any

sense for our environment or climate."

(source: greenpeace)

Next week, officials will meet to discuss the future path of the legislation,

so please, let's all send an email to prime minister Nick Clegg to lobby

for the legislation that will rule out tar sands oil!

Click:

http://e-activist.com/ea-action/actionea.client.id=18&ea.campaign.id=12858&utm_source=20111128tarsandsaction&utm_medium=email&utm_term=oil&utm_campaign=climate