The full extent of engagement included: in April UK Minister of State for Transport and key MEPs to highlight the issue and ask that they put pressure on the EC to penalise tar sands fuels for their higher emissions; employing a consultant in Brussels to engage with MEPs, Parliament and the EC, and holding face-to-face briefings with key MEPs; working with MEPs on the European Parliament Environment Committee to table questions to the Commission; in July 2010, writing jointly with WWF and Greenpeace to the new Minister of State for Transport, and signing a letter to the EC with 10 other international environmental and civic society groups calling for the FQD to be strengthened; in September 2010, with WWF and Greenpeace, meeting the UK Minister of State for Transport to advise of the inadequacy of current EC proposals; working with a group of six Environment Committee MEPs to table questions to the Commission; in October 2010, with NGO coalition partners, briefing MEPs on the EU-Canada trade delegation visit to Alberta, and working with the delegation secretariat to include an official meeting with an environmental science organisation, as well as an unofficial meeting with First Nation representatives; in December 2010, briefing several MEPs ahead of meetings with the Climate Change and Trade Commissioners (organised to raise concerns about reports of Canadian pressure to remove the FQD tar sands review clause), and ahead of meetings with representatives of the Canadian Government.