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Donna Carcerano, Benefits Administrator
New England Fuel Institute
238 Bedford Street, Suite 2, Lexington, MA 02420
(617) 924-1000
for biodiesel use,” said Jessica Robinson,
Director of Communications for the National
Biodiesel Board (NBB). “We applaud this
effort to educate American consumers about
the benefits of diesel vehicles.” The slogan
“Clean Diesel. Clearly Better” was unveiled
along with the promotional effort’s new
website –
which includes information highlighting the
advantages of modern clean diesel passenger
cars over gasoline engines “in terms of
cleanliness, consumption and performance,”
according to VDA.
ECOENGINEERS INTEGRATES RIN
QAP WITH BQ-9000 REQUIREMENTS
EcoEngineers is partnering with Degart
Global, a provider of BQ-9000 consulting
services, to integrate its RIN Quality
Assurance Program with BQ-9000 require-
ments. “Today’s biofuel plants have to dem-
onstrate compliance under multiple quality
standards,” said Shashi Menon, managing
partner of EcoEngineers. “All quality
assurance programs have a set of common
requirements in document control, record-
keeping, internal audits, nonconformance,
corrective actions and preventative plans.
This common set of quality control proce-
dures and documents should be integrated
into one cohesive system rather than mul-
tiple systems. This is the value offering of
combining them.”
EcoEngineers’ RIN Quality Assurance
Program will be integrated into the current
practices and procedures of an existing
BQ-9000 facility. Plants in EcoEngineers’
RIN management platform that do not
have BQ-9000 status can easily transition
into BQ-9000 via a transition program
that is being put in place. The transition
program will evaluate current operations
and recommend best practices to obtain
BQ-9000 status.
CN RAIL VOWS COOPERATION IN
BIOFUELS ‘MYSTERY TRAIN’ PROBE
CNRail says it will continue to cooperate
fully with Canadian and U.S agencies after
revelations by CBC News that the company
agreed to repeatedly “flip” the same train-
load of biodiesel fuel tankers back and forth
across the border, which generated millions
in biofuel credits for a Toronto company,
according to CBC News.
The Canada Border Services Agency
and the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency are investigating findings the rail
carrier agreed in June 2010 to facilitate
the mysterious shipments. CN was paid
$2.6 million to move the load between
its yards in Sarnia, Ont., and Port Huron,
Mich., generating billing slips and records
suggesting high volumes of imports while
knowing the cargo wasn’t destined to stay
in the U.S.
The shipments were at the request of
Bioversel Trading Inc. of Toronto, which
made millions repeatedly importing the
same load of biodiesel into the U.S. to
generate credits – legally exploiting what
the company believes was a loophole in the
U.S. green energy biofuels program.
