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- Photograph By Fort Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce The Fort Nelson First Nation and the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality are voicing their support for a proposed wood pellet facility after a Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives report criticized the project, which involves cutting down vast tracts of forest and turning them into pellets for export overseas. Most wood pellets are made with waste materials like branches and trees that can’t be used to produce lumber, combined with milling byproducts such as wood chips and sawdust. But Peak Renewables doesn’t have access to byproducts and plans to log whole trees for pellets, which would be shipped overseas and burned to produce heat and electricity.
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The Fort Nelson First Nation and the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality are voicing their support for a proposed wood pellet facility after a Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives report criticized the project, which involves cutting down vast tracts of forest and turning them into pellets for export overseas.
Most wood pellets are made with waste materials like branches and trees that can’t be used to produce lumber, combined with milling byproducts such as wood chips and sawdust. But Peak Renewables doesn’t have access to byproducts and plans to log whole trees for pellets, which would be shipped overseas and burned to produce heat and electricity.
Nearly 300 delegates from across Asia and North America joined the Wood Pellet Association of Canada (WPAC)’s first-ever Asia Wood Pellet Conference, highlighting the rapid and exciting expansion of pellet production and green energy demand in Canada and key Asian markets.
WPAC, together with
Canadian Biomass magazine and Canada’s embassies in Japan and South Korea and its trade office in Taiwan, hosted a live online conference called,
Energizing Asia with Sustainable Low-Carbon Biomass, on Feb. 17 (Japan Standard Time). Scientists, energy producers, government regulators and forest managers shared insights on the important role of sustainable wood biomass in meeting global greenhouse gas targets, and the data and research that supports the use of wood pellets as a green energy source.
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Canada is the second largest producer of wood pellets in the world – we support global efforts to tackle climate change and provide clean and responsible energy and heat for industrial, commercial and residential uses. Which begs the question, why aren’t we doing the same in Canada instead of exporting almost all of our annual production of three million tonnes of wood pellets to Europe and Asia?