BioMASS update NatioNs eNergy secures site for Biomass projects Vancouver, British Columbia-based Nations Energy Corporation has entered into a 15-year lease agreement with Biosource Power Ltd. concomitant to its purchase of land, buildings, and a pellet manufacturing facil-ity currently located in Kamloops, British Columbia. Under the agreement, its subsid-iary, Cedarhurst Forestry Products, will lease a portion of the property as the permanent site for its planned biomass power project pursuant to Nations Energy’s selection by BC Hydro under its community-based bio-mass power program for Kamloops. Both Biosource and Cedarhurst plan to cooper-ate with respect to the use of the facilities, including potential arrangements on fibre supply for pellet production, and distribu-tion via shared use of rail transport facilities. The company was also recently awarded $1 million from British Columbia’s Innova-tive Clean Energy fund to develop a com-mercial-scale torrefied pellet plant. caNada to regulate coal emissioNs Canada is moving forward with regula-tions for the coal-fired electricity sector. The proposed regulations will apply a stringent performance standard to new coal-fired electricity generation units and those coal-fired units that have reached the end of their economic life. “We are taking action in the electricity sector because we recognize the potential for significant emissions reductions,” stated Environment Minister Peter Kent in a recent Environment Canada release. Since the Canadian government first an-nounced its intention to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the electricity sector in June 2010, consultations have been ongoing with key stakeholders. The regulations were published in the Canada Gazette Part I on August 27, 2011, for a 60-day public con-sultation period. Final regulations should be published in 2012 and should come into ef-fect on July 1, 2015. For more information, visit www.ec.gc.ca. u.s. pellet exporters expaNd Several southeastern U.S. wood pellet manufacturers who export to European utilities are undertaking expansion plans. Fram Renewable Fuels has entered into an agreement to build a new 125,000-tonnes/ year pellet plant in south-central Geor-gia. Green Circle Bio Energy is looking at possible expansion locations in the U.S. southeast to add to its production capac-ity. It currently makes 560,000 tons/year of pellets from its plant in Florida. Enviva plans to build a second wood pellet manufacturing facility in northeast-ern North Carolina, which could be opera-tional as early as October 2012. The plant, designed to produce 400,000 tonnes/year of pellets, would be Enviva’s fourth pellet plant in the southeastern United States, and would ship out of Enviva’s Chesapeake, Vir-ginia, deep water port facilities. DEHYDRATION SYSTEMS ROTARY DRUM DRYERS Baker-Rullman Triple-Pass Technology remains the superior dehydration system by optimizing operating costs, efficiency, and end product consistency. n n n n Wood Pellets Ag Products Municipal Waste Bio Mass Call: (920) 261-8107 email: [email protected] www.baker-rullman.com 10 Canadian BIOMASS Baker-Rullman Manufacturing, Inc. 4 East Main Street • P.O. Box 67 Watertown, WI 53094 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2011
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