1991 - North Shore News - 33

Friday, June 7,

Canadian agency developing alternative fuels

from fermentable sugar or starch an alcohol derived primarily from gasoline — or straight gasotine.

ENERGY, MINES and Resource.
Canada (EMR) is helping to de-
velop alternative transportation
fuels that) will cut down ono en-
Vironmentally harmful emissions
aud improve air quality.

Altthoush Canada produces ouly
two percent of the world's
greenhouse gas onissions, we use
more energy per capita than any
other industrialized country.

EMR is working with industry
to remove the technical and eva-
nomic barriers that prevent the
increased use of more en-
vircamentally friendly fueis like
natural gas, prepane, ethanol.
methanol, hydrogen, electric bat-
teries and fuel cells.

“Now that the Green Plan is
out, there will be new pressures [o
clean up the environment," says
Allan Dolenko, of EMR’s Canada
Centre for Mineral and Energy
Technology (CANMET).

“Cleaner transportation — fuels
will be an important part of our
efforis to meet the environmental
challenge.’*

Propane and natural gus are
becoming well) established as
allernative transportation fuels in
Canada, with more than 140,000
propane vehicles and 22,000 nata-
ral gas vehicles an the road today.

Although conversion kits cost
between SEA400 and $3,000, both
fueis cost fess than gasoline or
diesel and emit lower volumes of
carbon monoxide and ovone-
forming emissions ereactive
hydrocarbons and nitrous aside).

CANMET is currently
demonstrating the use of natoral
gas in transit systenis in Torento,
Harnilton and Mississauga in On-
tario, and will begin testing natu.
ral gas buses in Vancouver in
1992.

Propane has already proven
itself suitable for such high-con-
sumption urban vehicles us taxis.
buses and police cars.

Ethanol and methanol are also
proving themselves as technically
and environmentally viable fuel
alternatives — cither alone or us
additives.

Ethanol, an alcohol derived

Vacancy rates on the rise

APARTMENT VACANCY rates
in the Vancouver metropolitan
area increased to 2.3% in April
1951, up from 0.9% in October
and April 1990 according to
Canada Mortgage and Housing
Corporation (CMHC). *‘The rise
is mostly attributed to an increase
in first-time home buyers who
have vacatec their rental units,”
said Don Renaud, senior market
analyst at CMHC Vancouver.

jn the Vancouver metropolitan
area, the highest vacancy rates
were in Delta at 6.4%, and North
Vancouver District at 4.2%. The
lowest rate was in White Rock at
0.7%.

for a one-bedroom unit was $582
waich was an increase of 6.2%
from April, 1990 when the rate
was $848. For (wo-bedreom units,
the average rate was $754 in
April, 199! which vas an increase
of 4.3% from the April, 1990 of
$723.

Rental markets in the Fraser
Valley have also eased. In April,
apartment vacancy rates in Mats-
qui rose to 5.4% from 2.8% last
October and in Chilliwack, the
rate rose to 2.0% from 1.8%,
Vacancy rates in the Sunshine
Ceast aree have declined from
October, with Squamish declining
to 1.8% from 3.7% last October,
and Powell River declining to 0%

crops, can be added
19%) to regular gas and used in
entional engines

CORN

adversely affecting
while lowering carbon dioxide and ing, and costs roughly the same as In Large Engines) and is currently

other emissions into

mosphere.

An cthanol-gas blend i. already volume.
StaQuonts The LMR-sponsured methanol

sold

a some Bas

the

up TO natural gas. EMR orecendy finished testing

Methanol produces fewer cur- the use of methanol in transit

without bon dioxide emissions than gaso- systems and fone-haul trucks
yeh ae, a } : . 7
perfornuinee, line does, has a high octane rat- under Project MELE | (Methanol

4t- premium gasoline in terms of the funding a cross-country tour of

enerey it produces. rather than its Canada’s first methanol-fueled ar-
ticulated bus.

Dolenko says that we are an the

western Canada and nertherns On- technical program is focused on verge of a new era in which we

tatrio, ; the development of exible fuel can expect to see a broader mix of
Canada is one or world’s vehicles that operate on MSS -- a energy sources and an increasing
largest: producers of methanol — blend of 85) methanol and IS" emphasis on cleaner fuels.

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