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34 DECEMBER 13, 2012 | WWW.PRODUCER.COM | THE WESTERN PRODUCER NEWS BIOFUEL | PROMOTION Time to give biofuel benefits attention, says expert Aggressive promotion needed | Biofuel industry told to speak up and explain the environmental advantages over fossil fuels STORIES BY BARRY WILSON OTTAWA BUREAU The biofuel industry has to step up its game to convince Canadians that it is a vital part of the climate change solution, says a Vancouver environmental academic. “We need biofuels big time and it can’t be marginalized anymore,” Mark Jaccard, a resource and environmental management professor at Simon Fraser University, told the annual Canadian Renewable Fuels Association meeting Dec. 4 in Ottawa. ©2012 Progressive Agriculture Foundation “We need to make biofuels happen really fast.” He said government support through mandatory requirements for biofuel content in fuel will continue to be necessary because fossil fuel, while more polluting, will always be cheaper. “Fossil fuels will beat biofuels every time,” he said in an interview after his speech. “They’re plentiful, they’re high density energy, they will kill off renewables if you let them compete fairly and they will kill off the planet. So there’s the tradeoff. Do you want to pay a little bit more for moving around in a vehicle and supporting agriculture or do you want to pay less and destroy the planet?” Some argue that oil reserves are declining and the “peak oil” tipping point of declining reserves has been passed or soon will be, but Jaccard said new oil reserves are becoming accessible and available resources will stretch for decades into the future. Jaccard said the federal government’s climate change policies are a disaster, promoting oilsands and conventional development that is Farm safety should be a part of rural children’s curriculum. Now in its 18th year, the Progressive Agriculture Safety Day ® program has reached its one millionth participant and is continuing its mission of eliminating farm injury and death by providing education and training to make farm, ranch and rural life safer and healthier for children and their communities. But our work isn’t finished. Find out how you can help keep kids safe on the farm. To contribute, visit www.progressiveag.org or call (888) 257-3529. Thanks to these generous corporate sponsors: Bunge North America Crop Production Services Agrium The Mosaic Company Foundation The Western Producer Alliance Pipeline Agriculture for Life, Inc. ConocoPhillips Canada Canadian Agricultural Safety Association Kubota Tractor Corporation PotashCorp Westfield Industries/ Ag Growth International Betaseed J.R. Simplot Company MacDon Industries Ltd. AGCO Workplace Safety & Prevention Services leading to global warming. The government has supported biofuel production with a mandate requiring use of renewable fuels in gasoline and diesel, but it still is a small part of Canada’s energy strategy. In Ottawa, the Conservatives have been targeting opposition New Democrats for proposing a carbon cap-and-trade system that government MPs say would be a $21 billion “tax on everything.” Jaccard noted that the Conservatives also promised a cap-and-trade carbon system in the 2006 election campaign. He told the convention that the only way to contain global warming is for governments to impose controls and costs on carbon emissions. Ottawa must become tougher in dealing with carbon-emitting industries such as the Alberta oilsands and pollution-emitting vehicles, he added. “We have to make carbon production costly or regulate it.” He said the biofuel industry must be part of the solution with more aggressive self-promotion. “Being nice has not worked,” he said. “It is time for you to speak up. Be vocal.” Jaccard said the official international position of holding average temperature increases to 2 C is already lost. The real temperature increase could be 4 to 6 C if governments do not get tougher about controlling emissions, he added. “That would be a disaster for the planet.” BIOFUEL | ECONOMICS Food versus fuel debate not an issue: consultant The food versus fuel debate around the biofuel industry is a bogus debate because of increased efficiency in livestock feeding, a Vancouver consultant told a renewable fuels meeting Dec. 5. Don O’Connor, president of S&T Squared Consulting, told the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association annual convention in Ottawa that millions of acres of land once required to produce coarse grains for feed are no longer needed because of increased livestock feeding efficiency. The demand for land to grow feed grain is 35 percent less than it was in the 1970s because of increased yields and better livestock feed use efficiency, he added. As well, biofuel production creates significant amounts of livestock feed byproduct, further reducing the need for coarse grain production. So land used to produce coarse grains for ethanol production does not displace land needed to produce food, said O’Connor. “I would argue that the food supply is more secure now than it was a decade ago.” His consulting company has a long association with the CRFA, and association chair Tim Haig referred to him as “the only speaker who is so much in demand that he’s invited back year after year.” O’Connor said the alternative to using the land for biofuel feedstock production is to produce more lowprice grain for export, which will compete with producers in developing countries. “If poverty is directly linked to GDP in developing countries, then I would argue that producing ethanol on that land and not producing grain to compete with local producers will decrease poverty in the developing world,” he said.
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