The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday edition that Canada possesses the key factors to place it at the cutting edge of sustainable jet fuel -- making it all the more "bizarre" that the country lags behind the United States and Europe in the race toward greener skies, says Airbus Canada's chief executive officer. A Canadian Press dispatch to The Globe quotes Benoit Schultz saying that Canada's long history of resource development, renewable energy, agriculture and aircraft manufacturing should help push sustainable aviation fuel, also known as SAF. "In a country like Canada, with the natural resources that it has, with the competences in the industry that it has, with the many players of the industry ... it would be really bizarre in my view if we couldn't make sense out of the sustainable aviation fuel roadmap," Mr. Schultz said in a video chat from Toronto. However, Canada has yet to commercially produce a drop of the stuff, often derived from used cooking oils, animal fats or organic waste. Big players such as Air Canada are on board with the drive toward greater fuel efficiency, buying a raft of new cost-saving planes. In April, it announced the purchase of 9.5 million litres of SAF from Finnish oil refiner Neste.