![](https://friendsoftheearth.eu/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/foee_tar_sand_fuelling_climate_crisis_0510.jpg)
The global development of tar sands will magnify the climate crisis and damage the EU’s environment and development objectives, this report warns. It reveals that investment by European oil companies – such as BP, Shell, Total and ENI – is expanding with developments around the world including in the Republic of Congo, Venezuela, Madagascar, Russia, Jordan and Egypt, with potentially disastrous consequences for the climate and local communities.