Pacific BioEnergy Touted As A Green Leader

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 04:10 AM

The wood pellet plant in Prince George photo courtesy of Pacific BioEnergy

Prince George, B.C. - Initiatives Prince George is hailing yesterday's announced expansion of Pacific BioEnergy's wood pellet as terrific news for the region. (click here, for previous story)

IPG says the local company's partnership with the European Utility, GDF Suez, is evidence of the region's importance to international clean energy trade and investment for the province.

"Bioenergy is an important economic sector for Prince George and the region and in the aftermath of the pine beetle infestation," says Kathy Scouten, V-P, Economic Development. "PBEC is demonstrating leadership in the expansion of this industry".

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Posted on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 04:10 AM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: Andyfreeze on February 16 2010 8:06 AM

Another one of those "only time will tell" projects!

Posted by: He spoke on February 16 2010 9:38 AM

I think it should go ahead, but to start talking about it being so green now is going to be premature, especially with its past history. What they should have done was queitly earn the right to say it.

Posted by: Retired on February 16 2010 9:49 AM

Its green. Whats all that stuff going up into the air and what happens where they burn all these pellets.

Will they be buying carbon credits where the pellets are burnt?
Cheers

Posted by: cupricity on February 16 2010 11:47 AM

You guys crack me up! GDF Suez is the owner or Electrabel a fairly large utility (bigger than the economy of BC almost). This company has partnered with PBEC. It would be like if Canfor got bought out by Home Depot.

This is great news, there is no maybe here. All those dead pine trees are going to turned into Pellets which is going to keep coal in the ground.

As for green the fall has the worst air in PG because of slash burning. This company turns slash into pellets.

Posted by: lonesome sparrow on February 16 2010 1:18 PM

After reading the comments in the previous story about Pacific Bioenergy,it looks like Europe gets the green benefit and the air quality in Prince George suffers yet again.

Posted by: twinbee on February 16 2010 4:56 PM

Give me a break. They finally got forced into a stack test for particulate matter PM10 and smaller. They failed and were 5 times over their permit levels and the plant wasn't running at full production.

Posted by: twinbee on February 16 2010 4:57 PM

They are in no way green

Posted by: interceptor on February 16 2010 10:48 PM

OK - for as long as I can remember, people want to "diversify" Prince George. The other buzz words might have been "value added". Heaven forbid we mention shipping raw logs overseas. Twenty years ago the mere idea of a pellet plant would have been laughed at like a chopstick factory. Hey guess what people - this is PG competing on a world market and doing well at it. As an added bonus it is making use of alot of fibre that was previously burned just to get rid of. I dont care if you flip burgers at MCDs this is good for our economy and the global environment.