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BIODIESEL DISCUSSIONS * Canada - Envirocan's own study undercuts national biodiesel plan
Doubts on the net benefits of biodiesel. Adds credence to concerns that such a policy is really a boost to the farming industry masked as an environmental initiative
Ottawa,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking -14 May 2010: ... This one it's a government study in Canada -- and a group of carriers are using it to question Ottawa's plan to implement a biodiesel mandate in this country... According to the Canadian Trucking Alliance, a study conducted in 2009 by EcoRessources Consultants (ERC) for Environment Canada, takes some of the wind out of the national biodiesel proposal. The study, concludes that the societal costs of a proposed federal two-per cent biodiesel (B2) mandate would outweigh the benefits by a factor of five... There have been several studies in recent years that show the environmental impact of producing biodiesel -- by clearing crop land and forestry and shifting food supply to the fuel market -- would undercut most, if not all, of biodiesel's carbon reduction benefits... David Bradley, CTA’s president and CEO, says "the study only adds to the questions that exist over why the federal government would pursue a biodiesel mandate"... (Photo from mercadoenergia: biodiesel)Labels: biodiesel debates
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