BIODIESEL CONCERNS * Canada - BCTA accuses province of ignoring those ones
Langley,BC,USA -Truck News -23 Jan 2009: -- After a meeting with senior representatives of the provincial government on Jan. 15, the B.C. Trucking Association is now concluding that the provincial government is not taking any of the BCTA’s biodiesel mandate concerns seriously... The BCTA states in a recent news release, that it “has striven over a number of months to encourage the government to address evidence that biodiesel may cause problems for some engines - including fuel filter plugging, fuel clouding/gelling and damage to fuel systems - before the new Renewable Fuel Requirements Regulation (RFR) is implemented on January 1, 2010. BCTA has emphasized that our findings on biodiesel should not take the place of scientific research, but that there are enough red flags on issues of extreme importance to the trucking and bus industries, to warrant a more considered and unbiased approach to a wholesale fuel mandate”... The BCTA indicates that it has repeatedly drawn the attention of the government’s Climate Change Secretariat, to numerous unresolved issues that transportation companies will face in 2010 when, by law, biodiesel enters B.C.’s petroleum diesel pool...
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