Tom Youngman

Co-founder of Green Vision: The Bath Youth Climate Movement, member of the Department for Energy and Climate Change's Youth Advisory Panel and member of the UK Youth Climate Coalition's delegation to the United Nations climate change negotiations. Human being and active citizen. thomas@youngman.me.uk.
February 17
All this week People & Planet and the UK Youth Climate Coalition have been campaigning to prevent oil from the Canada’s Tar Sands - a huge fuel deposit that requires decimation of the Canadian wilderness to extract - from being sold in the EU. This oil’s extraction is at least five times more carbon-intensive than usual and, if Canada’s tar sands are fully exploited, according to NASA climate scientist James Hansen it’s “game over for the climate”. Europe is on the verge of banning this and other especially damaging fuels from being sold within it’s borders - but the UK is obstructing progress! Join me in calling on the UK government to support the European Fuel Quality Directive preventing the sale of tar sands oil.

All this week People & Planet and the UK Youth Climate Coalition have been campaigning to prevent oil from the Canada’s Tar Sands - a huge fuel deposit that requires decimation of the Canadian wilderness to extract - from being sold in the EU. This oil’s extraction is at least five times more carbon-intensive than usual and, if Canada’s tar sands are fully exploited, according to NASA climate scientist James Hansen it’s “game over for the climate”.

Europe is on the verge of banning this and other especially damaging fuels from being sold within it’s borders - but the UK is obstructing progress! Join me in calling on the UK government to support the European Fuel Quality Directive preventing the sale of tar sands oil.

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Tags: #tar sands #climate change #UKYCC #people and planet #Environment
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