Corn and canola being grown for biodiesel when that land could be put to better use
Starting in the late 1970s we began in earnest growing corn and wheat not to feed people but to brew ethanol and put it in our gas tanks.
Apparently we can now burn our increasingly scarce and expensive food to create guilt-free airplane and automobile travel. This is part of the federal Clean Fuels Fund that aims to rapidly expand the conversion of farmland to so-called low-carbon fuel production with half a billion in annual funding. Here in BC we are leading the charge with the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, a credit scheme that helped get the country’s first stand-alone biodiesel plant established right here in Prince George.
A growing number of experts and observers are criticizing this entire enterprise, and for good reason.
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