Ethanol in Ontario will now have a required amount of Canadian content.
The provincial government outlined the requirements in an August 8 update, stating that they are introducing domestic content requirements under the Cleaner Transportation Fuels regulation mandating that at least 75 per cent of the renewable content required in diesel fuel and 64 per cent of the renewable content required in gasoline be produced in Canada.
The requirements follow the advocacy of groups like the Farms and Fuels Alliance formed last year of the Grain Farmers of Ontario and several Ontario ethanol producers, who aimed to present a unified voice for the biofuel sector.
The Ontario government specifically cited feedback from biofuel providers in the details of its decision, saying they raised concerns over the U.S. clean fuel production credit, which gives American providers a competitive edge.
