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Pulp and paper producer Tembec Inc. has officially inaugurated a new anaerobic treatment facility which will produce methane biogas and greatly reduce the use of fossil fuels at its high-yield pulp mill in Matane, Québec. The announcement of the investment was made earlier this year.  The upgrade is phase one of an overall $310-million investment. Funding for this investment was provided mainly by the Government of Canada with $19....

The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) congratulates the federal government for the "unprecedented success" of its $1 billion Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Fund (PPGTP) and it’s continued commitment to the ongoing transformation of the Canadian forest products sector. A new FPAC report was released on this phase of the government’s ongoing strategic support for the industry.  FPAC found that the program has funded 98 proje...

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Despite the closure of the NewPage Mill in Port Hawkesbury, NS, Nova Scotia Power (NSP) says it will move forward with plans to build a $200 million 60 megawatt biomass cogeneration plant on site. The plan to build the facility was negotiated prior to the pulp mill’s closure in September 2011. “The initial plan called for Nova Scotia Power to fund the project, which would be built and operated by NewPage,” wrote the Chronicle Herald t...

Hydro-Québec announced a plan to purchase 150 megawatts of power generated by forest biomass cogeneration plants throughout the province. The power will come from several different plants and each plant is to generate no more than 50MW, according to The Montreal Gazette. “The price for the power, in 2012 dollars, will be 10.6 cents per kilowatt hour, the average price for power awarded in 2009 to successful bidders on a biomass power pro...

Montreal-based pulp and paper company Tembec Inc. announced this week they will be launching a $190-million cogeneration project at their Témiscamingue site in northwestern Quebec. According to an article published by the Montreal Gazette, “the cogeneration program will replace three old boilers with one modern high-pressure unit burning liquors produced in Tembec’s existing chemicals plants [and] will reduce overall energy costs and boos...

A £6 million cogeneration facility being built in Alnwick, UK will kick-start a new focus on the renewable energy industry in North-Eastern England, according to business leaders in that region. The new facility will use woodchips and biomass from sustainable sources from a nearby sawmill to produce close to one megawatt of green electricity per year. “We have put a huge amount of time and effort into researching this project over a numb...

A new biomass gasification plant in Vaasa, Finland set the open by December 2012 is on track to be the largest plant of its kind in the whole world. The 140-megawatt, €40 million plant will be used not only to provide heat to the plant, but will also sell off excess power to a grid in the community. Biomass is biological material from living or recently living organisms such as wood. Considered a renewable energy source, biomass is typical...

Two countries looking to expand their opportunities in biorefining have joined forces to help each other seek out the full potential of the industry. Norway and the U.K. have been working together to identify the short and long-term areas for growth and potential within the sector, says an article published by Biorefining Magazine. The report compiled by Innovation Norway and the U.K.’s Technology Strategy Board identified three short-term...

A US-based energy expert speaking on the accelerating crisis posed by climate change said countries pursuing alternative energy sources consider cogeneration as a viable option. Jim Warren, executive director of the North Carolina Waste Awareness and Reduction Network (NC WARN), told a luncheon group in Burlington, NC last week that clean energy and cogeneration could help eliminate the need for nuclear and coal-fired power plants and slow cli...