Pacific Bio Energy Part of New Timber Force

Tuesday, November 09, 2010 02:47 PM

Prince George, B.C. - A new timber management company is hoping to maximize the value of forests in the northwest.

PacFor Timber is a joint venture between Pacific BioEnergy Corporation and Forsite Consultants that will manage three forest licenses in the Kispiox Timber Supply Area.

Vice President of Operations for Pacific BioEnergy, Brad Bennett, says the company will be able to find the full value of every log cut from forest licenses between Terrace and Smithers. “Combining the expertise and synergies of PBEC and Forsite Consultants will ensure that PacFor maximizes the value of every log harvested from the three licenses.” He says one of the forest management challenges of the past was that most companies could only send their logs to a local sawmill or pulpmill and not every log was best suited for either one of these forest products.

Bennett says PacFor already has three options of where it can send logs and hopes other new forestry ventures in Northwest BC will provide a greater range of options in future.

Those options for log use are: sawmills, new bio energy and pellet manufacturing plants, and support for log export markets.

PBEC has operated a wood pellet manufacturing plant in Prince George since 1995 and is currently expanding its Prince George Plant. When completed, the project will make PBEC’s PG Plant the largest in Canada. PBEC also owns the Kitwanga Lumber mill and a large forest license in the Nazko area. Forsite Consultants Ltd. has been providing forest management services to government and industrial client throughout BC for the past 24 years.

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Posted by: gus on November 9 2010 3:20 PM

"the company will be able to find the full value of every log cut from forest licenses between Terrace and Smithers"

Great. Finally someone is going to set up furniture factories, packaged systems house factories, ethanol plants, etc. to ship by containers and tankers throughout world markets. :-)

Posted by: He spoke on November 9 2010 3:21 PM

Nope, grind it down, and glue it back together so we can burn it.

Posted by: gamblor on November 9 2010 6:19 PM

wood-to-ethanol makes no financial sense. Corn or sugarcane to ethanol make blenders money, but at the consumer's expense. Oil companies all balked at ethanol because it costs more to produce. It was only after they realized the drastically lower energy-density of ethanol (you burn more fuel to go a given distance) tipped the profitability balance in their favour did ethanol really take off. And the $$$greenies$$$ cheered. Once again the consumer gets hosed on another failed alternative energy scam.

Posted by: supertech on November 9 2010 9:32 PM

That's what we'll be burning in our new energy system when Lakeland Mills shuts down.

Posted by: DPJ on November 9 2010 10:18 PM

Nice to boast the Prince George will have the largest pellet plant in Canada.

Posted by: gus on November 9 2010 11:50 PM

Canada ....

Their capacity will double to 350,000 tonnes per year

The USA is building one that will be double that to 700,000 tonnes/year
http://www.afabusa.org/news/Mars10/World's_Largest_Pellet_Factory_Planned_in_US_20100301.pdf

And here is Russia's entry ... 900,000 tons
http://bioenergy.checkbiotech.org/news/worlds_largest_wood_pellet_plant

Of course, at the moment, Pinnacle Pellet is the largest producer in the world to date wih production of over a million tons a year from its several plants.