Renewable Industries Canada supports the removal of onerous red tape for farmers in the Clean Fuel Regulations
Renewable Industries Canada (RICanada) is pleased the learn that Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) published its guidance documentation for the Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR) which solves the issue of compliance for land use and biodiversity criteria.
RICanada has repeatedly advocated for the removal of burdensome red tape that was placed on farmers with regards to traceability criteria of biofuel feedstocks. The new guidance documentation no longer requires GPS coordinates from each plot of land farmed
for crop-based fuels, and only one set of GPS coordinates will be required per farm. This is a major step towards making it easier and fairer for Canadian farmers who provide feedstock for biofuels.
RICanada thanks ECCC for listening to its members and recognizing that the proposed requirements were too onerous and would cause unnecessary burdens on feedstock providers.
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” The CFR is an important piece as Canada continues to move towards net-zero and there can be no path to net-zero without biofuels playing a large role. Without our farmers, there is no Canadian biofuel story. The decision to simplify the process for feedstock
providers represents a major victory for common sense and will allow for farmers to spend more time doing what they do best – planting, growing, and cultivating crops – rather than endless hours wrapped up in red tape that is redundant and unnecessary.”– Andrea
Kent, Board Member, RICanada