The Canadian Gas Association has received broad support from stakeholders encouraging the Government of&nbsp;Canada&nbsp;to endorse CGA's federal policy proposal for a Renewable Gas Innovation Program. &nbsp;The proposal seeks a Federal Budget 2019 allocation of&nbsp;$750 million&nbsp;to support renewable gas project deployment, to facilitate technology commercialization, and to enhance federal laboratory renewable gas R&amp;D capacity.&nbsp; To date, more than 35 letters of support have been sent to the Honourable Amarjeet Sohi, Minister of Natural Resources Canada.&nbsp;
To advance the discussion further and to educate Canadians about the role of renewable gases, CGA launched a social media campaign #CanadianRenewableGas via&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/GoSmartEnergy" target="_blank">@GoSmartEnergy</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/canadian-gas-association/" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>.&nbsp; It includes factual information on renewable natural gas, hydrogen, and synthetic methane, and details on the role they can play in providing low-emission energy for&nbsp;Canada. We encourage participation in the campaign #CanadianRenewableGas and offer more information on our&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cga.ca/" target="_blank">website</a>.
Looking forward, natural gas has an important and growing role to play in&nbsp;Canada's&nbsp;long-term energy future.&nbsp; The National Energy Board forecasts that by 2040 natural gas will be the largest source of energy in&nbsp;Canada&nbsp;at 40 per cent of energy demand. &nbsp;With this demand growth, we see a significant opportunity to expand the Canadian renewable gas market.
Canada's&nbsp;extensive underground natural gas infrastructure and untapped renewable gas opportunity position us well to achieve CGA's&nbsp;May 2016&nbsp;aspirational goals of 5 and 10 per cent RNG content by 2025 and 2030 respectively. &nbsp;However, in order to ensure success, sustained policy recognition and program support is required. Globally, more and more countries are recognizing the need for renewable gaseous energy solutions.&nbsp; For&nbsp;Canada, renewable gases offer a ready-now solution for reducing emissions from freight transportation, building heat, and industrial energy needs. By substituting just 5 per cent of&nbsp;Canada's&nbsp;gas supply with renewable gases, it would reduce GHG's by between 10 and 14 megatonnes.
"Federal funding for the Canadian renewable gas market is a way to trigger the use of existing cost-effective energy infrastructure to meet emission-reduction targets,&rdquo; said Timothy Egan, president and CEO of CGA.&nbsp; &ldquo;If the Government of&nbsp;Canada&nbsp;considers renewables a big part of our energy future, renewable gases should be part of the plan. We encourage the Government of&nbsp;Canada&nbsp;to support this funding request in Budget 2019. "
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The Canadian Gas Association has received broad support from stakeholders encouraging the government of Canada to endorse its federal policy proposal for a Renewable Gas Innovation Program, which seeks  $750 million in federal funding. 

CGA receives broad support for renewable gas funding proposal

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