BIOMASS CANADIAN Volume 17 No. 3 Why certify? Don’t miss the boat to earn seals of approval So how do you get certified? What SBP, PEFC Chain of Custody, Green Gold schemes are out there and what do they Label, ENplus and CANplus – all of them get you? wood pellet certification schemes, some Gord Murray, executive director of the for quality, some for sustainability. No Wood Pellet Association of Canada, tack-doubt I’ve missed others. les those questions for us The seemingly endless on page 16, Part 1 of a two-list of schemes available part series on certifications. to Canadian wood pellet In this issue Murray covers producers might be over-quality certifications. Part 2 whelming to a newcomer will run in our July/August in the pellet world. (Me issue and will cover sustain-not so long ago.) Some 20+ YEARS ability certifications. might be asking, are they OF PELLETS Wood pellet quality cer-worth it? tifications, Gord explains, The short answer is yes. are designed for pellet pro-As of print, two Canadi-ALSO ducers in the heating sector. an pellet producers have se-These trademarks assure cured Sustainable Biomass consumers that the pellets Program (SBP), which in they are burning meet the highest standard March changed its name from Sustainable of quality. While industrial consumers are Biomass Partnership. It’s the latest sustain-able to conduct their own lab tests to de-ability certification scheme that launched termine if a shipment of pellets meets their globally in March 2015 and now lists 81 demands, the average Jane and Joe buying certificate holders. a 20-pound bag from the local hardware New Brunswick-based Shaw Resources’ store to feed their new pellet barbeque de-Belledune pellet operation was the first to serves to know their pellets meet the grade. get the certification in Canada last fall (read The global heating market represents about their Shubenacadie operation fea-about half of all traded wood pellets, tured on our cover on page 8), and B.C.’s Gord says. Much of that market is in Eu-Premium Pellet followed suit in March. rope, where ENplus is predominant and Both companies stressed the importance in many cases demanded, and in the U.S., of certifications to access the European in-where the EPA requires all new pellet stove dustrial pellet market. warrantees to specify the use of certified Robert Tarcon, general manager for pellets. Premium Pellet, told me certifications give Be it the industrial or the heating mar-Premium another link to its end users, ket, it seems clear that for Canadian pellet which are the large multi-national Euro-producers looking to ship overseas, don’t pean utilities such as Drax, RWE, Engie, miss the boat when it comes to certifica-Dong, Eon, Vatenfall and Horfor. tion schemes. Rene Landry, director of pellet oper-Maria Church, Editor ations at Shaw Resources, said the same thing and added: “The key is credibility of the industry and ultimately proving that the raw material comes from a sustainable, renewable, legal source.” May/June 2017 Biomass, Bioenergy and Bioproducts canadianbiomassmagazine.ca Editor -Maria Church (416) 510-5143 [email protected] Editor -Andrew Snook (289) 221-8946 [email protected] Contributors -Gordon Murray, Taylor Fredericks, Keta Kosman, Julia Struyf, A.J. 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All advertising is subject to the publisher’ s approval. Such approval does not imply any endorsement of the products or services advertised. Publisher reserves the right to refuse advertising that does not meet the standards of the publication. www.canadianbiomassmagazine.ca A look at Shaw Resources’ Shubenacadie operation Madison’s pellet report Wastewater revenues PM 40065710 4 Canadian BIOMASS FEBRUARY 2016
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