Airline lobby appeals to feds for targeted incentives for sector as it fleshes out climate policy

'What we’re looking at is creating an incentive for the introduction of a new fuel stream that, from a commercial perspective, does not exist,' says Massimo Bergamini of the National Airlines Council of Canada.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is facing calls from the aviation sector to apply an exemption from the carbon tax. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY Beatrice Paez

April 1, 2019

As Ottawa prepares to roll out proposed regulations for its clean fuel standard, aviation stakeholders have been urging the government to adopt a policy carveout for the sector to create the necessary incentives to encourage uptake of biojet fuel.

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