Biodiesel can help meet the climate challenge

As long as Canadian industry is using diesel, it should be the cleanest form of diesel that is available on a cost-effective basis. Today, that option is biodiesel.

Carbon taxes and fuel standards are helping close the price gap between diesel and biodiesel, but it will be many years before these policies will have enough of an impact, especially in sectors like shipping and mining, which can use very high blends to maximize pollution reductions, writes Lucio Angelucci.Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY LUCIO ANGELUCCI

December 21, 2021

The transportation sector is one of the largest and fastest-growing GHG-emitting sectors. Diesel is one of the dirtiest fuels within this sector, and has been one of the most challenging fuels to find cleaner alternatives for. While electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel are emerging cleaner technolog...

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