Category: fuel

Lebanon Signs Deal to Sell Iraqi Fuel in Move to Ease Crisis

July 25, 2021
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BEIRUT—Lebanon signed a deal Saturday to broker Iraqi fuel sales in hopes of alleviating a crippling financial and energy crisis in the small Mediterranean country, Lebanese and Iraqi media reported. The deal allows Beirut to resell 1 million tons of heavy fuel oil from Iraq—fuel that Lebanon cannot use in its own power plants—to companies…

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13 Killed in Kenya Fuel Tanker Explosion

July 19, 2021
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NAIROBI, Kenya—A fuel tanker exploded in western Kenya while people were siphoning fuel from it, killing 13 people, police said Sunday. Residents started siphoning fuel from the tanker after it was involved in a crash late Saturday with a trailer near the Malanga Village in Siaya county, Gem subcounty Police commander Charles Chacha said. “The…

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‘Costs Going Through the Roof at Worst Time’: Opponents Speak Out Against Carbon Tax

January 12, 2021
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Energy and taxpayer advocacy groups warn that Canada’s Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) will create a “second carbon tax” that, coupled with the carbon tax, will make life less affordable and kill Canadian jobs. Franco Terrazzano, Alberta director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, calls the CFS a “second carbon tax” and predicts that “costs are going…

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