Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht
EU Fuel Quality Directive: Discussion with Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association
4:40 pm
Senator Joan Fraser:
What one gets at the end of the process is crude oil, which is then refined. On site, it takes more energy to produce sand oil but not over the full life-cycle. If one takes the whole process into account, that is how one arrives at the figures I quoted earlier regarding greenhouse gas emissions.
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