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B.C. A Green Saudi Arabia?
By Mr Ethanol | June 4, 2007
Canada.com:
At a pilot plant located on an isolated corner of the University of B.C. campus, researchers are converting trees killed by the mountain pine beetle into high-grade ethanol, a green alternative to gasoline.
Four hundred kilometers away, north of Kamloops, waste bark fed into a high-tech burner comes out as synthetic natural gas for heating water and drying veneer at a plywood mill.
And in BC Hydro’s Vancouver office, staff are sorting through more than 80 expressions of interest from energy and forest companies. They want to produce power from mountains of wood going to waste alongside British Columbia logging roads.
Calling timber-rich B.C. the new, green Saudi Arabia without its polluting fossil fuels and gushing oil wells isn’t just wild fantasy.
All over the world, scientists, businesses and governments are looking for ways to produce energy without increasing greenhouse gas emissions that are contributing to global warming.
Governments are already spending billions of dollars on clean coal research, on ramped-up nuclear energy programs, on hydro power, on energy efficiency and power-saving strategies to put the breaks on climate change caused by greenhouse gases.
In British Columbia, there is no more obvious source of green energy than wood…
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