Let’s Dig In New editor takes helm By Sarah Sobanski Volume 24 No. 4 Reader Service Print and digital subscription inquiries or changes, please contact Angelita Potal, Customer Service Ph: (416) 510-51 13 Fax: (416) 510-6875 Email: [email protected] Mail: 1 1 1 Gordon Baker Rd., Suite 400 Toronto, ON M2H 3R1 Editor -Sarah Sobanski Ph: (416) 510-5239 [email protected] Contributors -Gordon Murray, J.P. Antonacci, Joel E. 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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 H ello, bonjour, howdy. Anyone got a good wood pellet joke? Or for that matter, any corn, wheat straw, organic waste jokes? What about anaerobic digestion, py-rolysis, ethanol, renewable natural gas, sustainable aviation fuel, carbon capture and stor-age, biogas, biofuels, bio-char, biocarbon or biomass jokes? Wow, there is a lot to know in this bioenergy sector. I suppose it’s unlikely I’ll find one all-encom -passing icebreaker that’ll resonate with each of you loyal Canadian Biomass Magazine readers. I’ll skip right along then and introduce myself as your new editor. Originally from Ontario, I took my first real journalism gig across the coun-try in Northern Alberta. For those fimil -iar with the area, it was a little newspaper in Bonnyville, about three hours north of Edmonton and four hours south of Fort McMurray. I had already worked a TV internship in Calgary, so I thought, How cold could it really be? Our team was shortstaffed — to put it mildly — and needed a municipal report-er. I took one too many philosophy classes while getting my journalism degree, and didn’t really have a choice, so started my foray into political journalism. When the snow still wasn’t off the ground in June, I packed up my things and drove to an editor job in Bancroft, Ont. Then came a few gigs in Peterbourgh, Ont., and then a chance to lead a City Hall desk in Nova Scotia. Over a decade I fell in love with discovering new people, sec-tors and telling their stories. In the few short months since taking on this role — now back in Toronto — I’ve spoken with people from each of the aforemen-tioned sectors. There are folks just starting in the sector, excited about bold new ideas, such as Montreal, Que.-based carbon remov-al project developer, Deep Sky. There are folks who’ve been in the sector for de-cades, trying to take an in-dustry forever on the cusp of trillion-dollar greatness over the edge, such as Jeff Passmore, head of Ottawa, Ont.-based Passmore Group. Don’t forget the folks and organiza-tions who’ve been trying to get the word out that solutions for low-carbon energy, in a world desperate to stop climate change, already exist, such as Gordon Murray, ex-ecutive director of the Revelstoke, B.C.-based Wood Pellet Association of Canada. I attended my first WPAC conference last month and came home with a fist full of business cards from people who are working in this sector and have stories to tell. You’ll find each of these stories in this issue, but I have an inkling I’ve just brushed the surface. With that in mind, please reach out. I want to know why you’re in this sector, your challenges and opportunities, and dig into the stories that matter. • FALL 2024 4 Canadian BIOMASS
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