The Sprout: Loosened land-use restrictions expected in new Clean Fuel Standard By Kelsey Johnson. Published on Dec 15, 2020 11:56am
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Land-use restrictions will be significantly loosened in an amended version of the federal government’s new Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) to be published this week, Real Agriculture is reporting.
Citing a government document and sources, the changes are meant to alleviate some farmers’ and farm groups’ concerns. The complete CFS regulations will be published in the
Canada Gazette on Dec. 18.
As Real Agriculture reports, a draft version of the standard was presented to farm groups this past summer. It includes land-use and biodiversity requirements that would disqualify biofuel feedstocks grown on farmland that’s been converted from wetland, grassland, or forest since as early as 2008. Riparian areas, a type of buffer, would also be required along waterways.
Year in review: A look at news events in February 2020
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Last Updated Dec 14, 2020 at 2:14 am MDT
A look at news events in February 2020:
01 – The new coronavirus global emergency sent markets tumbling as major airlines announced the suspension of flights to China. Tour companies and hotels in Western Canada reported seeing an increase in cancellations from Chinese tourists. A number of countries announced they were moving to bar entry to most people who may have visited China in the past two weeks. A World Health Organization official noted that while most cases reported so far had been people who visited China, human-to-human transmission was becoming more prevalent in cases abroad.
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The oil industry and the Alberta government say Ottawa’s removal of gaseous and solid fuels from Canada’s long-awaited federal Clean Fuel Standard will avoid an exodus of investment in the fossil fuel sector.
The federal Liberals’ climate change plan, released last Friday, proposed to triple the carbon tax and spend more than $15-billion to pass Canada’s 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. But it also significantly dialled back its original plans for the Clean Fuel Standard – a complicated policy to provide emissions reduction incentives and create a credits-trading market – narrowing its scope to focus only on liquid fossil fuels such as gasoline, diesel and oil.
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