Fibre to Burn? - A contrarian's view of biomass fibre availability in BC and the mad rush to commit it

摘要

Nowhere in Canada is the buzz about forest biomass and its use for energy production heard more often than in British Columbia. In 2007, the BC Government announced the BC Energy Pfan (the Plan), a key component of which was the development of the BCBio-energy Strategy The latter will take advantage of the provinces notionally abundant sources of renewable energy, such as mountain pine beetle (MPB) killed timber, wood wastes and agricultural residues to produce power. On the heels of the Bioenergy Strategy, BC Hydro, the provincial regulator for power purchase and distribution, launched its Phase I Call for Power. Phase I focused on bio-energy projects that were immediately viable and did not need any allocation of new harvesting tenure from the Ministry of Forests and Pxange.