SPRING 2020 10 14 FutureMetrics president William Strauss shares insights about how COVID-19 will impact the industrial wood pellet industry. Pandemic pellets 18 The Esk’etemc people are installing biomass boilers to help reduce their reliance on fossil fuels. FESBC’s executive director Steve Kozuki shares some insights into the project. From propane to biomass 20 When Whitecourt Power found its inventory of sawmill residuals running low, they teamed up with Millar Western and Whitecourt Transport to trial separating debris from hog fuel piles. Cleaning up contaminate 24 Nova Scotia’s newest wood pellet plant is humming away in Upper Musquodoboit. Pellet mill production manager Miles Wright gave Canadian Biomass an inside look at the investments that have allowed the plant to produce 100,000 tonnes of wood pellets per year. 10 GREAT PELLETS The City of Toronto is upgrading an organics processing facility to convert food waste into RNG, which will then power Toronto’s garbage truck fleet and eventually heat buildings. Food to fuel 28 Cleantech company Sustane Technologies is turning household garbage into biomass pellets, biofuels and recyclable material. Canadian Biomass takes readers inside the project. Gold from garbage “We are diverting 90 per cent of the waste that is not already diverted. That is going to change the game for municipalities.” 18 DEPARTMENTS 6 26 Industry news Equipment spotlight – Conveyor access 26 Read the full story on page 28. COLUMNS 4 8 30 Editorial WPAC – Co-firing in Japan Final Thoughts Our Cover Miles Wright, operations manager for Nova Scotia’s newest pellet plant, Great Northern Timber Resources, says the new owner’s supply chain integration will give them fibre security. Canadian BIOMASS 3
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