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Canada
Population: 33,390,141 (July 2007 est.)[1]
GDP (PPP): $1.165 trillion (2006 est.)[1]
Petroleum
– consumption
– imports:
– Gasoline to diesel ratio:
2.294 mil bbl/day (2004) [1]
963,000 bbl/day (2004)[1]

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Electricity
– consumption
– Main sources:
522.4 bil kWh (2004)[1]
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Renewable energy targets: 3.5% to 15% of electricity in 4 provinces; other types of targets in 6 provinces.[2]
Ethanol
– production:
– target:
– feedstocks:
153 mil gal. (2006)[3]
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Biodiesel
– production:
– target
– feedstocks:
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Information about biofuels and bioenergy in Canada.

Contents

Events

2010

2009

2008

2007:

Issues

News

  • Dead Forests to Fuel Vehicles, 15 September 2009 by CleanTechnica: "The University of Georgia Research Foundation has developed an innovative way to turn dead trees into a liquid fuel and has licensed it to Tolero Energy in California. We could be driving on our dead forests as soon as 2010."
    • "Infestations of the mountain pine beetle have devastated forests in the western United States and Canada, killing over 40 million acres of pine trees. As the trees decompose and decay, they release millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, and the devastation has created a significant and dangerous fire hazard in the western forests."[1]
  • A New North American Consensus in Biofuels, 18 February 2009 by MSNBC:
    • "As America and Canada look for ways to provide economic opportunity, reduce the impacts of climate change, and develop renewable energy sources, the role of biofuels in the energy plans of both nations is becoming increasingly important. Both nations are investing in alternatives to imported oil."
    • "Paralleling efforts in the U.S. to expand the use of ethanol, the Canadian Parliament last year passed a Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) requiring gasoline sold in Canada to contain an average of 5% renewable content, including ethanol, and 2% renewable content, including biodiesel, in the diesel supply.'
    • "Finally, based on a number of recent studies, it is clear that renewable fuels using both grains and cellulosic feedstocks are better for the environment than gasoline."
  • Trash Becomes Ethanol in Major Canadian Alt-Fuel Move, 15 December 2008 by The Cutting Edge:
    • "Edmonton has an aggressive trash reduction program with 60 percent of all solid waste being recycled or composted. What’s new is that they intend to improve that figure by taking an additional 30 percent of their waste stream and making ethanol."
    • "The city expects to put 75,000 tons of waste into the process annually and get back nearly seven and a half million gallons of ethanol. The payback on the $70 million investment should come very quickly, even with the currently depressed oil prices—perhaps in as little as seven to ten years." [2]
  • Environmental groups expose Biofuel technology threats to Global Biodiversity, 15 September 2008 Press Release in The Canadian: The Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) and the STOP GE Trees Campaign issued a press release in opposition to the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) conference held in Vancouver, BC.
    • "'We want no part of this nightmarish future where trees are genetically engineered to fill our gas tanks,' said Tony Beck of the Society for a GE Free BC."[3]
  • Biofuel buses could hit end of line, 26 August 2008 by the Globe and Mail: "Amid concerns over rising fuel costs and the growing worldwide debate over the environmental benefits of biofuels, Toronto's transit agency will consider abandoning the use of biodiesel for its massive bus fleet."[4]
  • Shell boosts stake in Iogen cellulosic ethanol, 15 July 2008 by Reuters: "Oil major Royal Dutch Shell Plc said on Tuesday it will make a 'significant investment' in a venture it has with Canadian cellulosic ethanol maker Iogen Corp."
    • "Iogen, which is also backed by Goldman Sachs Group Inc, has run a demonstration plant in Ottawa since 2004 that can produce about 2.5 million liters of ethanol a year from the plant stalks that are left behind after farmers harvest crops."
    • "It is planning to open a C$500-million ($500 million) commercial-scale plant in Saskatchewan, Canada's largest wheat-producing province, in 2011. That plant would produce about 90 million liters (23.78 million U.S. gallons) of ethanol a year."[6]
  • Iogen Nixes Idaho for Ethanol Plant, Picks Saskatchewan, May 9 2008 by Canadian Press:
    • "For the last two years, Iogen had leaned toward building a cellulosic ethanol facility near the community of Shelley, near where farmers already are under contract to provide the wheat and barley straw, corn leaves and stalks, and switch grass used to produce ethanol."
    • "A U.S. Department of Energy spending package included loan guarantees and an US $80 million grant for the project, estimated in 2006 to cost up to US $350 million. But in March, the Canadian government announced it had allocated $500 million for projects to build next-generation biofuels plants in Canada." [7]
  • British Columbia launches new bioenergy strategy,1 February 2008, Biofuel Review. The provincial government hopes this new strategy will help achieve its goal of energy self-sufficiency by 2016 as well as generating new jobs, investment, and innovation.
  • B.C. looks to tree debris for electricity. 18 December, 2007, according to reportonbusiness.com the province is weighing policies that would reward companies for purchasing wood waste from logging and other activities to use as feedstock for electrical power.
  • "Canada sets biofuels legislation" from Biofuels International, 14 December 2007. "The Canadian government is reintroducing legislation that will set a minimum biofuels content in petroleum and diesel fuel within three to five years."

Organizations

Governmental organizations

Nongovernmental organizations

Companies

Go here for Canadian companies

  • Canadian Bioenergy: An integrated biodiesel company in Canada. The company is active in:
    • Pre-engineering and final feasibility for a 114 million litre per year (30 MMGY) biodiesel production facility adjacent to Bunge Canada's oilseed crushing plant in Sturgeon County, Alberta (near Edmonton).
    • Strategic partnering with oilseed growers and processors to secure long term supply of feedstocks for our biodiesel production plants.
  • Regional distribution and sales of biodiesel, and blended diesel-biodiesel products, from terminal hubs in Vancouver, BC and Calgary, AB.
    • Expansion of regional distribution and sales network of biodiesel products.
    • Partnering with petroleum distributors to make biodiesel widely available in western Canada through distribution and offtake agreements.
  • Dynamotive Uses pyrolysis technology to turn dry waste biomass and energy crops into BioOil for power and heat generation.
  • Iogen Corporation - Iogen has developed technology for cellulosic ethanol production.
  • Lignol Energy Corporation - A western Canadian company, Lignol plans to build biorefineries for ethanol and co-products produced from Canadian forests. The Company has acquired and modified a solvent based pre-treatment technology originally developed by a subsidiary of General Electric (“GE”). Lignol also acquired the original GE pilot plant that is now being integrated with recently developed process capabilities to convert cellulose to ethanol.
  • Sunopta- Built the first cellulosic ethanol plant 20 years ago, in France. In June 2006, SunOpta said it would build the first cellulosic ethanol plant in China. Recently sold a biomass-to-ethanol system to Celunol in what will likely be the first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant in the United States.

Associations

  • Canadian Bioenergy Association (CANBIO) - "CANBIO is a national, industry-driven, non-profit organization of individuals, businesses and non-governmental organizations interested in the development, promotion and use of bioenergy."

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 World Factbook
  2. ↑ REN21 Renewables Global Status Report 2005 p. 20
  3. ↑ F.O. Licht from the Renewable Fuels Association


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