An investment worth $600,000 from the Canadian government will fund projects that will benefit local biofuel and biorefining industries. The fund is intended to help the Alberta Sugar Beets Growers to study the use of sugar beets and energy beets as feedstock for the production of bio-butanol, a promising biofuel that can run current gasoline engines, and bio-glycol, a renewable alternative to petrochemicals that can serve as precursor for a variety of products such as plastics, polyester fiber and resin. The fund, supported through the Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program, will also be used to provide business advice for the commercialization of the beet-based renewable products.