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  • Report: Climate Consequences from Logging Forests for Bioenergy

    A new report warns about the poten­tial wors­en­ing of cli­mate change from log­ging Cana­di­an forests for elec­tric­i­ty and heat, and rec­om­mends a “pre­cau­tion­ary approach” regard­ing the expan­sion of bio­mass energy. For­est Bio­mass Ener­gy Pol­i­cy in the Mar­itime Provinces, writ­ten by Jamie Simp­son for the Hal­i­fax, Nova Sco­tia-based East Coast Envi­ron­men­tal Law, eval­u­ates envi­ron­men­tal impacts from…

  • Three Injured in Canada Wood Pellet Plant Explosion

    - Octo­ber 14, 2014, Bioen­er­gy Insight An explo­sion at Pin­na­cle Renew­able Ener­gy’s wood pel­let plant in British Colum­bia injured three and result­ed in around 30 employ­ees being evacuated. The inci­dent hap­pened on 9 Octo­ber after a fire broke out inside equip­ment used to dry wood fibre. The plan­t’s built-in sup­pres­sion sys­tem had already extin­guished the flames…

  • Group Calls for Probe of Nova Scotia Biomass Logging

    [The for­est foot­print for a bio­mass incin­er­a­tor is mas­sive. Will be inter­est­ing to see if any probe is done in regards to this facil­i­ty. ‑Ed.] -  by Erin Pot­tie, June 27, 2014, Cape Bre­ton Bureau A Cape Bre­ton envi­ron­men­tal group is call­ing for an emer­gency review of har­vest­ing prac­tices at Nova Sco­tia Power’s bio­mass plant in…

  • Biomass Energy Drives Wood Shortage in Nova Scotia

    -  Rachel Brighton, Octo­ber 10, 2014, The Chron­i­cle Herald [More evi­dence of bio­mass ener­gy com­pet­ing for lim­it­ed wood source.] Open­ing up long-term access to west­ern Crown lands will relieve some of the pres­sure that has been build­ing in the forestry sec­tor this year. This week the province announced that 16 sawmills and man­u­fac­tur­ers had been grant­ed 10-year…