Why Biofuels and Hydrogen Are Key to Our Zero Carbon Future
Cascadia needs to move heavy vehicles and industry off fossil fuels. Meet the people inventing life after diesel.
Peter Fairley is an award-winning journalist based in Victoria and San Francisco, whose writing has appeared in Scientific American, NewScientist, Hakai Magazine, Technology Review, the Atlantic, Nature and elsewhere.
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The Parkland refinery in Burnaby is changing its diet. Designed to convert Canadian petroleum and bitumen into jet fuel, gasoline, diesel and other fuels, it meets BC’s clean fuel standard by increasingly blending in renewable feedstocks.
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[Editor’s note: This is the latest in a year-long occasional series of articles produced by InvestigateWest in partnership with The Tyee and other news organizations exploring what it will take to shift the Cascadia region to a zero-carbon economy, and is supported in part by the Fund for Investigative Journalism.]