The company said this week it will buy Princeton Standard Pellet Corp., and provided that goes ahead, will add 90,000 tonnes-a-year of capacity to its existing production capacity of 1.57 million tonnes in B.C.
“It’s not a growth business, that’s for sure,” in B.C. said Taylor, because declining timber harvests that have seen sawmills and pulp mills close leave less mill waste for pellet producers to use.Article content Drax took its biggest stake in B.C. last by buying the dominant producer, Pinnacle Renewable Energy, which owned and operated plants in Armstrong, Burns Lake, Strathnaver and Williams lake and had partial stakes in plants in Houston, Smithers and Lavington.
However, the amount of B.C. production Drax accumulated brought a complaint from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in February that it had too much of a monopoly over wood-pellet production in B.C. The Centre for Policy Alternatives also argued there was evidence that provincial forest licences were giving Drax’s plants too much latitude to take whole saw logs to be ground down to make pellets.
Kurz said it is best to maximize the amount of long-lived products that can be made out of timber, such as engineered wood products, which sequester carbon for longer periods, and only use wood waste or slash from logging sites to produce wood pellets.Article content
Probably going to need a lot of wood to keep a lot of people from freeze
Waste wood displacing dirty coal and reducing European reliance on Russian energy. Good stuff.
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