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New Brunswick allocates biomass supply; Twin Rivers largest recipient

Posted in: Bio-Insight 06/08/2010 - 11:28

ST. JOHN, NB, June 8, 2010 (New Brunswick Business Journal) -The New Brunswick government is committing more than 1.2 million cubic metres of the province's branches, tree tops and foliage to forest products companies generating energy and value-added products.

The Department of Natural Resources will announce Wednesday that eight proposals out of 16 submitted by industry firms have been awarded Crown biomass allocations that will bring in about $975,000 in revenue for the government this year.

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Howe Sound seeks to add wood debris to fuel source

Posted in: Bio-Insight 06/07/2010 - 13:26

PORT MELLON, BC, June 7, 2010 (Local News) -Howe Sound Pulp and Paper (HSPP) is in the midst of an application process with the Ministry of Environment (MOE) that could allow the company to add construction and demolition debris to the list of fuels it can burn to generate power.

Al Strang, manager of environment and external relations for HSPP, said he expects studies currently underway will show no measurable change in the local environment and airshed.

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Canada to fund C$995,000 for energy project at Domtar’s Espanola, ON, mill

Posted in: Bio-Insight 06/07/2010 - 05:19

SAN FRANCISCO, June 7, 2010 (RISI) -Canada will provide C$995,000 to Domtar for an environmental project at the company's Espanola, ON, pulp and paper mill under the government's Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program (PPGTP).

The mill will install a refurbished wood waste grinder that will allow it to process bark more effectively for the production of renewable energy.

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Andritz to supply high energy recovery boiler for Holmen's Iggesund mill in Sweden

Posted in: Bio-Insight 06/01/2010 - 21:19

GRAZ, Austria, June 2, 2010 (Press Release) -International technology Group Andritz has been awarded an order by Holmen AB's subsidiary Iggesund Paperboard to supply a 2,400 t/dHigh Energy Recovery Boiler (HERB) to the Iggesund mill in Sweden.

In terms of its power-to-heat ratio, the new boiler will be the most efficient recovery boiler in the world. Start-up of the boiler will be in the second quarter of 2012.

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