417.    ---------------. [BUSINESS WEEK]  Fuel Research in Canada.  No. 890, 1946, p. 112.

                  It is reported that the Canadian Government is abandoning its active participation in synthetic-liquid-fuels research and, instead, plans to appoint a fuel-research board representing both the Government and private industry and assign to it the responsibility of following current research in the United States and of drawing up a new liquid-fuel program for the Dominion.  Plans approved by Parliament for a $750,000 coal-hydrogenation pilot plant will be postponed, since the Canadian Government sees no economic future for a synthetic-fuels industry in eastern Canada based on high-cost Nova Scotia coal.  The same applies to the Pacific coast region.  Attention will, however, continue to be given to the Mid-Continent region and research on natural gas, coal, and natural bitumen from Alberta tar sands will be continued.