BIOMASS CANADIAN Volume 18 No. 1 The bio-age? Government policy should spur the bioeconomy in 2018 t’s clear we’re at the threshold of the Also in December McKenna gave an bio-age.” update on national carbon pricing, giving It was a powerful statement provinces and territories until the end of from Kim Rudd, parliamentary secretary 2018 to submit their own plans. To be ap-to the minister of natural resources, at an proved these plans must meet the equivalent industry event in Ottawa late November. of $10 per tonne of carbon a year rising to And if it at all reflects the sentiment at $50 a tonne by 2022. While Alberta and Natural Resources Canada, it’s a call to ac-B.C. already have plans in place that will tion for biomass producers meet the standard, other to make noise in the mar-provinces and territories will ketplace. There is a strong need to take action next year. reason to think 2018 will be Now is the time for a banner year for biomass. wood pellet and biofuel companies to share their Making good on its elec-low carbon solutions with tion promises, the Liberal INDUSTRIAL consumers who will soon government is moving for-DEMAND have new incentives to ward – albeit with the usu-choose greener options. al bureaucratic glacial pace Lack of awareness is still – with two policies that will the No. 1 hurdle to grow-help reduce Canada’s contri-ALSO ing the local wood pellet bution to greenhouse gases heating market. Consumers (GHGs). These policies will need to hear the good news help bridge the price gap story of how wood pellets provide efficient between fossil fuels and lower carbon alter-home heating at a comparable price long natives like wood pellets and other biofuels. term. With that goal in mind, the Wood In December Environment and Climate Pellet Association of Canada launched Change Minister Catherine McKenna an-www.woodpelletheat.ca, a website dedi-nounced the release of the federal Clean cated to sharing information on wood pel-Fuel Standard with the aim of publishing lets as a renewable heat and power source. draft regulations by late this year. The stan-For years the bio industry in Canada dard, she said, will “give Canadians better has been calling for favourable government access to clean fuels and will make a sig-policy to spur the growth of the bioecono-nificant cut in Canada’s carbon pollution.” my. The Clean Fuel Standard and national According to the government release, carbon pricing are a response from gov-the Clean Fuel Standard will be a “flexible ernment. These polices, if implemented as regulation” with a range of compliance op-promised, will help usher in the “bio-age” tions, and will set carbon intensity accord-in Canada. Canadian biomass companies ing to the entire lifecycle of a fuel. should react by ramping up their market-Scott Lewis, vice-chair of Renewable In-ing efforts in 2018 and getting in front of dustries Canada, said the Clean Fuel Stan-the movement. • dard will “bring to Canada a credit trading market for biofuels that is essential in our ability to continue to bring low carbon fuels to consumers at competitive prices, while allowing for some flexibility in compliance.” January/February 2018 Biomass, Bioenergy and Bioproducts canadianbiomassmagazine.ca Editor -Maria Church (226) 931-1396 [email protected] Associate Editor -Tamar Atik (416) 510-5211 [email protected] Contributors -Gordon Murray, Taylor Fredericks, William Strauss, Seth Walker. 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