Study calls Saskatchewan biofuels policy a failure

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) reported that Saskatchewan biofuel subsidy programs “are failing both as rural economic development and environmental protection policy.” The study: Biofuels: Bonanza or Boondoggle for Saskatchewan? said that policies were based on flawed assumptions of grain surpluses and low feedstock prices. The report says that  “alleged environmental benefits have turned out to be illusory,” but critics of the study said that the CCPA study was based on discredited research.

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