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Toxic Fuels

Toxic Fuels, our campaign with WWF-UK, aims to combat the shocking global trend of extracting oil from unconventional sources, such as tar sands and shale oil. Such exploitation threatens global efforts to avoid dangerous levels of climate change and risks local ecological disaster.

• watch a version of the BBC's programme about our campaign [external site]
• take action to stop tar sands expansion
• read our reports 

 

take action

• Contact your MP to pressure the UK Government to help stop tar sands expansion
• Donate to the Beaver Lake Cree and help them stop tar sands
• Spread the word – tell your friends, family and colleagues about this issue and help them join our fight via our pages on Twitter and Facebook as well as our campaign site. 

 

reports

• Unconventional Oil: scraping the bottom of the barrel: published with WWF-UK, this report looks into the impact tar sands and shale oil developments could have on climate change, and their ecological impact on the ground.
• Carbon Capture and Storage in the Alberta Oil Sands - A Dangerous Myth: published with WWF-UK, this report debunks the idea, lauded by oil companies and the Canadian government, that carbon capture and storage (CCS) will significantly counter the high levels of greenhouse gases emitted in the production of oil from tar sands deposits in Alberta, Canada.
   

For more information on our campaign, visit our Good with Money campaign website.