Grizzly Mill Hog FEATURES: • Heavy duty construction • High inertia solid steel rotor • Replaceable strikers • Shear pin protection • Swing away anvil with bolt-on liner shaft and bearings • Oversize Thomson gives kudos to his colleagues of two decades. B.C.’s new LCFS statute and regula -tion (2024); which is Canada’s most stringent fuel regulation, and includes the first SAF (sustainable aviation fuel) mandate in the Americas. “The regulations referred to above were ground-breaking achievements in Canada, and, over 2010 to 2024, they have proven to be the most successful mecha-nism to reduce GHGs from fossil fuel use in transportation,” Ghatala said. Thomson gives kudos to his colleagues of two decades including dedicated and deeply knowledgeable association staff. He also flags the indispensable work of provincial governments, especially B.C., Alberta, Ontario, Manitoba, and Quebec, and the federal government for helping create a friendlier environment. “The provinces have taken real lead -ership in getting regulations that give the kind of assurances that people who have capital and aspirations to build production assets need,” Thomson said. “The federal government undertaking the Clean Fuels Regulations starting in 2016, and wrap-ping up in 2022, was great work. It took longer than we had hoped, and ended up coming full circle back to a pretty basic local carbon fuel standard, but that was a real highlight.” Seeing the clean fuel sectors collabo -rating recently has also been a highlight. “It’s way too easy for people in the al -ternative fuel space to feel like they have to compete with each other,” he said. “I mean, at the end of the day, they compete. But first you’ve got to collaborate to get a market, and I think we’ve seen some real -ly effective collaborations in Canada.” When asked what advice he would offer the next generation looking to be -come active in the renewable fuels sector, Thomson says to be prepared for two steps forward and one-and-a-half steps back. “I talk with people who are graduating from engineering programs or getting into them, or wanting to get into this space, and they think everything’s going to go hydro -gen. They think everything is going to go electrification,” he said. “The view that many of us in the clean fuels space have is there’s going to be a long road for high energy density, low carbon liquid fuels. Whether those are fossil fuels with signifi -cantly lower their carbon emissions, biofu-els produced out of refineries with co-pro -cessing or renewable diesel, or biofuels produced in standalone biofuel plants with low carbon intensity increasingly made from a wider range of feedstocks than just agricultural crops, the need to fuel internal combustion engines is going to be around for a long time.” • Whole Log Chipper 6040 FEATURES: Extreme duty • construction Oversize infeed • Powered feed works • Large rear access • door for easy and safe maintenance Brunette BioSizer ® • Three-piece grate • Large rear door access • Four rows of fixed strikers coated with tungsten carbide • Available in widths 40" 52" & 64" • Ideal for biomass and pellet mill applications BrunetteMC.com 1-800-686-6679 [email protected] Canadian BIOMASS 17
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