April 30, 2025
The Liberal Party of Canada, led by Mark Carney, won a minority with 169 seats in Monday’s federal election, with the Conservative Party elected as the Official Opposition with 144 seats. The Liberal Party platform pledged to reduce Canada’s reliance on imported clean fuels, progress on ITCs, invest in clean agricultural technologies, and facilitate the flow of clean energy across provinces, and the Canadian Biogas Association is eager to get to work on ensuring these are realized. Other relevant Liberal commitments on the campaign trail included providing direct support for clean energy projects and leveraging CUSMA renegotiations to establish better North American regulatory alignment on biofuels.
The CBA looks forward to working with elected MPs from all parties to support the accelerated development of Canada’s biogas & RNG industry. A new government brings new opportunities for partnership, and we are ready to advocate for urgent solutions to key industry issues, including competitively attracting investments in new projects, enhancing existing measures such as the Clean Fuel Regulations that provide market certainty and incentives, developing feasible pathways for other industries to leverage biogas & RNG, and better recognizing biogas as an important piece of Canada’s circular economy on farms, in communities, and across industries.
The House of Commons is scheduled to sit from May 26 to June 20, but the prime minister has not yet confirmed an exact timeline for Parliament’s return.
At this critical moment for Canadian energy and industries, the need to realize our readily available biogas & RNG potential is more important than ever. The CBA is encouraged by the inclusion of biofuels and clean technology in campaign commitments, and will be working hard throughout this transition period to ensure that taking action to help grow Canada’s biogas & RNG sector is top of mind across government.
