Airbus Chief: Canada's Failure to Produce Sustainable Jet Fuel is "Bizarre"
It's "bizarre" that Canada trails the United States and Europe in the race to make sustainable jet fuel, says the head of Airbus Canada.
Benoit Schultz told Canadian Press that Canada possesses the key factors to place it at the cutting edge of sustainable jet fuel. But he said the country hasn't produced any sustainable aviation fuel or SAF, which often comes from used cooking oil, organic waste or animal fats.
Speaking from Toronto in a video interview, Schultz noted Canada has a long history of resource development, renewable energy, agriculture and aircraft manufacturing; factors that should make it an SAF leader.
“In a country like Canada, with the natural resources that it has, with the competences in the industry that it has, with the many players of the industry … it would be really bizarre in my view if we couldn’t make sense out of the sustainable aviation fuel roadmap,”he said.
Canadian Press reports the U.S. "has embarked on an ambitious incentives program and the European Union has set a timeline for green fuel thresholds — at least two per cent of the bloc’s jet fuel must be sustainable by 2025." That is supposed to rise to six per cent in 2030, 20% in 2035 and a full 70% by 2050.
