Financial Times -- Chiquita to stop use of tar sands oil
,December 15th, 2011
Excerpted from Financial Times:
Chiquita Brands, the fruit producer, has become the latest company to move to stop using oil from Canada’s tar sands in its fuel supplies, after a campaign by an environmental group.
The decision marks the latest success for protesters against tar sands production, who say it creates more damaging pollution both locally and in terms of carbon dioxide emissions than conventional oil.
[...] Chiquita has committed to identifying all the fuel suppliers for its own trucking fleet and dedicated fleets provided by contractors, so it can stop buying from any that it believes sell diesel made from tar sands oil.
ForestEthics, an environmental group based in Washington state, had run a targeted campaign against Chiquita and Dole, another fruit company, using press advertisements, protests at stores and consumer petitions.
[...] In a letter to ForestEthics announcing the commitment, Manuel Rodriguez, a senior vice-president of Chiquita, said the company had “a long record of protecting the environment and working to reduce its carbon footprint globally”.
Mr Sanger [of ForestEthics] said the trend against the use of tar sands oil was accelerating.
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