they can burn all that wood but i'm told not to burn wood to heat my house...?

Hey Brownshoe, now you know what a minority feels like, eh?
Have to keep all that dirty nasty wood smoke outa the bowl you know, it bothers a couple people. Bunch of dumbasses think it's bad for the lungs or something, but the refinery's okay, pulp mills okay, industry's okay, just don't you dare put wood in yer stove and light it up, there'll be fines soon enough, the smoke police are com'in.
Saw the machine out on the KK working on the pellet fuel, pretty neat. Wouldn't it be nice if the government said, If you cut wood down, let there be no waste, you have to send the waste to the pellet plant. But that would be common sense, something our politicians sadly lack.
Then there would be more wood smoke in the bowl, can't have that you know, couple people complained.

Hey slim who says the pellet plants need to be built in the bowl how about putting them outside the airshed

hey, I don't have a wood stove in my house.

I have a bio combustion chamber.

Greed and money should trump forest fire prevention? I think not.

There you go He Spoke...Theres your shot at making some $$ with the bio trend. LOL.

I gotta give the bio energy folks credit for being creative though..A simple name change for wood burning that is marketable.. "Bio Energy!!"

$5,000 per pile market value?

What market?

1. local retailer selling 20 lb bags for cat litter?

2. Local retailer selling pellets by the ton for residential wood heating?

3. Manufacturer selling to European countries FOB Canadian soil by the railcar on an annual contract?

The first one might get that much, but I doubt very much that the price would be that high for overseas delivery to a community nergy plant.

Anyone have some real figures to present rather than what appears to be wishful thinking?
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The other thing, if the CILA thinks that these piles should have been chipped and brought into manufacturers, why did they wait this long to lobby for that. These things are sitting there and with the situation we find outrselves in, they need to be disposed of as intially intended or rendered safe in some other manner.

"the current situation is an example of what happens when legislation and current processes haven’t quite caught up to the application on the ground."

Application on what ground? The plants are not ready yet.

Wanna get ready for the future now. The one where after the beetle killed wood is gone and has all been processed for their last viable use, the AAC has dorpped to a degree where plants will be mothballed because of no fibre.

Plan for it now. There is nothing sustainable about the current effort. Shut downs due to a reduction in fibre supply and a rise in prices is a mere 10 years down the road! The beetle event will have gone 20 years into its 60 to 80 year cycle by then.

Oh, and 10 years into the cycle, the government still has not planted any intervening fast growing plantations to mitigate the downturn in the AAC. during that 60 to 80 year cycle.

THAT is what the CILA needs to push the government and the licensees to do to keep their members employed longer.

The payroll in the harvesting and transportation sector has decreased by some 40% since 2007. I wonder how memberships for the CILA are doing.

They are still planting pine. Food for the next crop of beetles in about thirty years. Maybe we should be looking at some slightly warmer climate species because of the way the climate is changing. It tales a year or two to grow the seedlings though. Gus, What kinds of fast growing species are you thinking of? I'm just wondering. Poplar and cottonwood are the only things I can think of. Maybe birch. They might be viable for wood pellets but maybe not lumber so much.