WINNIPEG - Apr 8/10 - SNS -- The Manitoba government will subsidize up to 20 million liters per year of biodiesel production for the next five years under amendments to the Biofuels Act tabled in the legislature by Energy and Mines Minister Dave Chomiak.
"We will replace the fuel-tax exemption for Manitoba biodiesel with a production grant, payable directly to provincial producers," said Chomiak. "We expect paying a grant to provincial producers, rather than a fuel-tax exemption, will be more effective in making producers competitive and thus encourage the local production of biofuels."
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