Heather Scoffield: Ottawa finally introduces a key plank of its plan to fight climate change. Does it go far enough?
It’s fitting that a central part of Canada’s low carbon policy came stumbling out of the gate.
They were sort of made public in the middle of last week to those who knew enough to ask the federal bureaucracy for the details. The Star has obtained a copy of the 229-page document, but the bungled release of the regulations means the government has had to scramble to speed up the formal publication of the rules, as well as quickly pull together its analysis of what will become of the economy and greenhouse gas emissions as a result.
But it’s far from clear that the new fuel requirements meet the initial goals set out when the Liberals were new to power.Regardless, the cuts to emissions won’t be immediate. Investment and ingenuity should flow fairly steadily towards biofuels with the certainty the regulations bring, says Andrea Kent, a board member of Renewable Industries Canada. Ethanol can be used quite easily in conventional cars already, and in higher percentages than now. Airplanes and heavy equipment are on the industry’s radar.
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