Resolution

WHEREAS Greenhouse gas emissions from ethanol production and use are between 40 and 60 percent lower than those from gasoline production and use; 

WHEREAS Saskatchewan used 1.8 million litres of gasoline in 2018; 

WHEREAS Saskatchewan’s ethanol requirement is 7.5% for gasoline; 

WHEREAS Environment Canada’s Clean Fuel Standard final regulations are scheduled to be published in 2020; 

WHEREAS Ethanol production provides market alternatives for Saskatchewan grown lower quality grain products; 

WHEREAS Distillers grain, as a by-product can benefit Saskatchewan’s livestock sector; 

BE IT RESOLVED That Saskatchewan increase the ethanol mandate to 10%; that Canada include a 10% biofuel mandate in Canada’s Clean Fuel Standard.