CBC's "The Current" on Oil theft

[sean]

Yesterday on "The Current" on CBC Radio talked for half an hour about "yellow grease". Here is the narrative.

"You might say that yellow grease is a new black gold, a hot commodity whose price has tripled. And with that rapid rise in value, grease banditry is rampant in some U.S. states. That bothers people like Christopher Griffin, director of legal affairs for Griffin Industries, a company that's been collecting restaurant grease since 1943.

Some might say that catching one of these thieves is like catching greased lightning, but others argue that these cases aren't really theft at all.

Jon Jaworski is an attorney in Texas who has represented dozens of clients accused of stealing the often stinky stuff. His work has earned him a reputation as the "grease lawyer,"


Grease Bandits - Canada

Grease theft may be a growing problem in the U.S., but for some perspective on the situation in Canada, we were joined in Toronto by Stu Porter, the biodiesel technical advisor to the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association."

Interesting discussion. They were also speaking about the black market trade in yellow grease and how it is also traded as a commodity on the Chicago stock exchange.

Here in courtenay I have heard a few stories about people getting to their restaurant and their jugs being stolen, but it far and few between. In texas the oil collection companies hire off duty police and Texas Rangers to monitor and follow grease bandits to the "lair of veg"

I tried to find the podcast but no luck so far.

Sean

[Adam]

Not sure if it made it on to the Best of The Current podcast, but he is more on the program here.