Bioenergy, a Plus For Us or DuPont? One Man's Opinion

By Ben Meisner

The recent Bioenergy conference held in the city cast a new light on what possibilities might exist after the beetle, but more over they point to a few new opportunitie.

Bioenergy is the buzz word of the future.

DuPont who was at the conference sniffed that out and appeared with a view to getting a leg up on any potential competition.

Is DuPont looking at the power production that could come from the beetle dead trees, nope, if you dig a little deeper you can see the possible motive of that company.

 Bioenergy using beetle wood not only reduces power and heat it also produces, chemicals, which you can be rest assured DuPont is most interested in.

The future is in Biofuels, combinations of grasses, wood pulp, crop waste and even what drops out of the back end of a cow. It all adds up to energy production and in this region it means green house gas emission credits, an ingredient that every multi national company is seeking.

In order to look at the motives of DuPont you need to look at a very large picture, a picture that makes money, lots of money for the company.

We should have learned a lesson from the Alcan days where we gave away a precious resource that we never will be able to recover , it is important that this time around we use more common sense in how we go about looking for ways to take us into the future.

Business by its very fact in not interested in the general well being of an area, it is profit driven and while we also must look at the benefits of that profit, we must also keep a strong feeling of what is in the interests of the overall population.

The conference did a lot to see that the days of the traditional pulp mill, lumber mill and plywood mill may be numbered and a new means of harvesting the forest is on the threshold.

It is important that we do not give this away Willy Nilly .

I’m Meisner and that’s one man’s opinion.  

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