Syncrude appeals case to bow out of biodiesel blending mandate

In Canada, Syncrude has appealed a court case it lost earlier this summer intending to circumvent the national 2% biodiesel blending mandate. It argues that to transport biodiesel to northern Alberta where the company produces bitumen from tar sands in order to blend with the diesel it consumes in machinery creates more GHG emissions than the biodiesel would reduce. Earlier this summer a federal court justice ruled that Syncrude didn’t provide strong enough arguments to show that not blending with biodiesel wouldn’t have negative impacts on air pollution.