The first biodiesel retail station in Alberta opened to much fanfare in December of 2008, but it was short-lived as one year later the card lock closed quietly.
Brent Schaefer was among the supportive customers of Green Way Fuels, which is located across from the Turner Valley town hall. Schaefer, owner of Glacier Water Transport, would bring his tractor-trailer and his five-ton truck through Turner Valley to fill the tank with the five per cent biodiesel roughly four times per month.
(The success of the biodiesel fuel industry relies heavily on biodiesel testing <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s32Ke2VzrqU>, not only at the production level but at the consumer level, where degraded fuel may cause engine failures. Of major concern to diesel and biodiesel users is the very real possibility that water has contaminated their fuel. (See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YcczdvPyAk). The potential catastrophic impact of this problem is discussed at length in this video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lh4qhXc_5s&feature=youtube_gdata.
Fleet Fuel's family of inexpensive biodiesel test kits is just a click away on the internet at:
<http://fleetbiodiesel.com/biodiesel_testing_and_supplies.html>)