The Canadian government is putting more than $72 million into a biodiesel plant in Ontario.
This government press release says the money for the BIOX Corporation facility in Hamilton comes from the ecoENERGY for Biofuels program, which works to help stabilize the Canadian renewable fuel industry:
“The Government of Canada is delivering results for families and workers in Hamilton,” said [The Honourable Lisa Raitt, Minister of Natural Resources]. “By investing in this project, our government is helping to create and sustain local jobs and economic opportunities as well as a healthier environment for all Canadians.”
Through the ecoENERGY for Biofuels program, the Government of Canada will invest up to $1.5 billion over nine years to encourage the development of a strong, competitive renewable fuels industry in Canada. Compared with gasoline, grain-based ethanol can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by up to 40 percent on a life-cycle basis. For biodiesel, the emissions reduction can be as much as 60 percent.
“This announcement today is ensuring new, green, sustainable manufacturing jobs are being created right here at home,” said [Tim Haig, President and CEO of BIOX Canada Ltd.]. “Clean-burning renewable fuels such as biodiesel significantly reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions and finally give drivers a choice at the fuel pump. BIOX is proud to be a world-leader in advanced biodiesel production, and proud to help Canada grow beyond oil.”
The news was also welcomed by the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association (CRFA):
“BIOX is using a new advanced technology at their facility in Hamilton to make a world-class renewable fuel,” said CRFA President Gordon Quaiattini. “Biodiesel significantly reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as well as reducing many other harmful air pollutants. This is on top of bringing about diversity at the fuel pump for all drivers and consumers.”
BIOX is the largest producer of biodiesel in Canada.
The recent American Coalition for Ethanol’s 22nd Ethanol Conference & Trade Show in Milwaukee saw an exploration of an issue that remains a hot issue in the biofuels biz: Indirect Land Use.
The concept that the growth of some biofuels feedstocks in the United States, especially corn and soybeans, could cause the cutting down of the rain forests in other parts of the world… and would disqualify some of the green fuels from being part of the proposed Renewable Fuels Standard.
The latest discussion featured energy economist from Purdue University Wally Tyner and Air Improvement Resource President Tom Darlington, who talked about how studies that blamed corn-based ethanol for deforestation ended up being wrong and how the most common economic models used to figure the amount of Indirect Land Use vary too much and don’t consider things like dry distillers grains.
The city of Gary, Indiana plans to replace 120 cars and trucks in its aging auto fleet this year with new flexible fuel vehicles (FFVs) paid for with a $3 million grant from the Federal Highway Administration.
As the company moves closer to the commercial development phase for cellulosic ethanol, 
With just four races left in the current racing season, Volkswagen Motorsports has announced next year’s SCCA Pro Racing Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup schedule… a series that features clean-burning B5 biodiesel in its cars.
In what is being characterized by the company as a major breakthrough in algae technology to be turned into biodiesel, California-based Aurora Biofuels has optimized algae strains that more than double their intake of carbon dioxide… important for producing the oil that is eventually turned into biodiesel.
Researchers will be gathering in St. Louis next week for the “Algae-to-Energy Research and Development in the South” meeting.
The Center for Evergreen Energy in conjunction with The Southern Growth Policies Board and The Southern Agriculture and Forestry Resource Alliance (SAFER) is hosting the meeting of southern algae researchers on August 26th at the Regional Chamber and Growth Association’s office in St. Louis at One Metropolitan Square, Suite 1300:
“Algae-to-Energy Research and Development in the South,” [is] a gathering of scientists and stakeholders in the southern United States who are researching effective and innovative ways to convert algae to biofuels. This gathering will be the first of several events related to algae biofuel research and development that the Center for Evergreen Energy will host. 
Stancil Oil Company has recently broken ground to open a Marathon-branded E85 station in January 2010. The station will be the first in Smithfield, North Carolina to carry the renewable fuel.
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