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Article content For 17 years, trucker Colin Birch has been hitting the highways to collect used cooking oil from restaurants. He works for Vancouver-based renderer West Coast Reduction Ltd, which processes the grease into a material to make renewable diesel, a clean-burning road fuel. That job has recently gotten much harder. Birch is caught between soaring demand for the fuel driven by U.S. and Canadian government incentives and scarce cooking oil supplies, because fewer people are eating out during the coronavirus pandemic. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Renewable diesel boom highlights challenges in clean-energy transition Back to video ....