EPCOR Power 's Williams Lake, BC facility has used cheap wood waste from the local mills for the last 15 years to generate power.
However, the 6 mills around Williams Lake have halted production, the power plant is now employing most of the logging truck drivers in the area to scouring the nearby roadsides for piles of logging waste to keep their thermal plant fed. However, the 6 mills around Williams Lake have halted production, the power plant is now employing most of the logging truck drivers in the area nearby to scouring the roadside for piles of logging waste to keep their thermal plant fed.
British Columbia's newly released action plan for forestry calls for more of the waste wood left behind after harvesting to be used for biofuel. British Columbia's newly released action plan for forestry calls for more of the waste wood left behind after harvesting to be used for biofuel.
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Static wood chip prices in AustraliaOrigin of text
Domino effect expected from static woodchip price
Posted Fri Mar 27, 2009 3:00pm AEDT; Updated Fri Mar 27, 2009 3:18pm AEDT
The industry has described the price as disappointing. (ABC News: David Hudspeth)
A timber industry analyst says the entire sector will be affected by Gunns' stagnant woodchip price.
The Tasmanian timber company has informed the Australian Stock Exchange it has been unable to negotiate an increase in its woodchip price with Japanese buyers this year.
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Canadian woodchip prices down
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Trees instead of ethanol...It didn't take long for the debate on biofuels to heat up again, despite the bottom-of-the-barrel price of oil and an economy in the drink. This time, it was a study published in the February issue of Science that said corn-based ethanol could add nearly twice as many greenhouse emissions as fossil fuels. Not to be left out, the California State Regulators, among others, have jumped into the fray and now seem ready to declare that biofuel will not help reduce global warming.
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MGT Power have announced plans for second biomass power plantMGT Power Ltd has announced plans to develop a second major biomass power generation project at the Port of Tyne in the North Tyneside. The proposed 295MW Tyne Renewable Energy Plant (Tyne REP) will be located on industrial land in the Port of Tyne, North Shields and is 10 kms east of Newcas
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Biomass plant plans in Wisconsin
A proposal by We Energies to generate power by burning waste wood at a Wisconsin paper mill comes at a time when the paper industry and environmentalists have raised concerns about another wood-burning power plant in northern Wisconsin.
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Who says it's green to burn woodchips?Kenya: Out of the Forest And Into the Oven
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Bio-fuel levy the last straw for NZ forest ownersA NZ Government decision to make big companies pay for some of their greenhouse gas emissions when using wood pellets and other biofuels is seen as the last straw by many in the forest industry. Reports Friday Off Cuts
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Britain cuts down forests to keep ‘green’ power stations burningBritain is set to plunder the lungs of the world to feed its growing hunger for wood to burn in power stations.
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Japan Wants World's Largest Woodchip Exporter to Sell FSC Certified ProductIt takes time, sometimes decades, but people power can turn around seemingly unstoppable juggernauts. That seems to be what is happening with regard to Tasmania's old growth forests.
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Nova Scotia Power and NewPage propose renewable co-generation projectNova Scotia Power Inc. (NSPI) and NewPage Port Hawkesbury Corp. (NewPage) today announced agreements to develop a new 60 MW biomass co-generation facility.
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Biomass power plant finds wood to burnThe company that wants to build a controversial wood-burning power plant near Shelton has signed a fuel-supply contract with Mason County’s largest private timberland owner – Green Diamond Resource Co.
Terms of the contract were not disclosed, but Adage spokesman Tom DePonty said the agreement should provide about 20 percent of the 604,000 tons of wood debris the company needs to power its plant each year.
It is the first fuel-supply contract signed by Adage and a forest landowner for the $250 million project.
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Project turns wood into oil substituteMississippi could become the first place in the world where simple woodchips are turned into a commercial crude oil substitute.
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Wood chip indices - a new tool for companiesWood chip indices are well suited for forest and energy companies who can use price indices for benchmarking and for the financial community, which can use the Indices as price risk management tools.
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Global Wood Chip Price Indices being launchedMore than 80 million tons of wood chips, valued at almost ten billion US dollars, are traded annually in the open market worldwide and the shipment volumes are increasing. The vast majority of traded wood chips are currently utilized for pulp production, but the volumes used to generate energy are growing.
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Argus Launches North American Wood Chip Price AssessmentsHOUSTON, USA, Jan 5, 2011 - International energy pricing agency Argus today launched North American wood chip assessments.
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Energieholzpreise Österreich
Marktanalyse II: Energieholzpreise
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Price analyses of wooden bioenergy in Austria:
Charts and Study are in German language - english legends enclosed by ForesIndustries.EU:
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This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the wood flows from smallholder plantations to industrial buyers in the Binh Dinh and Phu Tho provinces of Vietnam.
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Global Timber and Wood Products Market UpdateWood chip exports from Australia fell in 2011 to their lowest level in 11 years and Vietnam took over as world’s largest chip exporter, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly Vietnam has taken over Australia as the world’s largest supplier of wood chips to pulp mills in Asia.
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