Morice Land and Resource Management Plan

Sector Development Strategy

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Identified Opportunities
Development of Cogeneration Wood Facility

Sector Development Strategy

Information gathered from the SWOT analysis was used to develop an economic development strategy for the forest sector. The strategy is to strengthen existing forest companies and promote the development of new products and markets. This can be achieved by:

Maintaining a high quality wood supply;
Maintaining reasonable access to the wood supply;
Provide an adequate wood supply to small operations as well as major licensees;
Ensuring management direction in land-use plans is not overly restrictive;
Streamlining environmental regulations governing the wood supply; and,
Providing land-use certainty for forest companies.

These issues, if addressed, will assist in ensuring a long-term viable forest sector. Without addressing these issues production costs for lumber and secondary manufacturing will increase, placing the forest sector at a disadvantage on the world market.

Identified Opportunities

The Morice LRMP Economic Development Working Group, through a series of brainstorming sessions, identified a list of forestry related economic development opportunities. Once identified, the Working Group prioritized the opportunities using the ranking criteria. Table 4 is a listing of the opportunities and their relative rankings within the forest sector.

Table 4. Identified Forest Opportunities and rankings

Opportunities	Ranking
Incremental silviculture (i.e. spacing, pruning) forest management	22
Processing of under utilized species	22
Pellet stove pellet operation	23
Musical instrument production (supply of birch)	19
Development of a log yard	22
Log home building	23
Development of a Cogeneration Wood Facility	25
Chemical recovery from wood waste	21
Denim wood production from pine beetle timber	23
Development of engineered wood products	24
Oriented strand board mill	25
Establishment of Medium density fibre board mill	24

Applying the ranking criteria to the list of opportunities, four were selected for further analysis. Those opportunities were; development of a cogeneration wood facility, development of engineered wood products, establishment of an oriented strand board mill and establishment of a medium density fibre board mill. All but one of the top four priority opportunities, oriented stand board mill, was analyzed. The following sections explore the criteria and conditions for developing these opportunities.
For further information on these and other economic development opportunities interested individuals are asked to review the Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management, Building Blocks. Information on these Building Blocks can be obtained online at http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/rmd/ecdev/analysis/building_blocks.htm .

Development of Cogeneration Wood Facility

Overview

Cogeneration assessed here is focused on the burning of wood waste to generate electricity and steam. Cogeneration plants can utilize a mix of inputs such as coal, residential garbage and wood waste. Four separate methods of production are possible:^³

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Finlay Forest Industries Inc., 14 MW plant in Mackenzie, BC
irect-fired combustion: Direct-fired combustion is the most common technology. Direct combustion involves the oxidization of wood-waste with excess air, producing hot flu gases that generate steam in the heat exchange sections of the boilers. The steam is then used to produce electricity. In an electricity only system, all of the steam is condensed in the turbine cycle. In a cogeneration system, a portion of the steam is scavenged to provide a heat source with varying levels of steam pressure.
Co-firing: Co-firing refers to the practice of introducing wood-waste as a supplementary fuel source in high efficiency boilers, with the main fuel source usually being either coal or natural gas. This is considered the nearest term low-cost option for reducing emissions from fossil fuel electricity generating plants in the US.
Thermo chemical: Biomass conversion into oil and gas can be performed by thermochemical technologies such as gasification, flash pyrolysis, and vacuum pyrolysis.
Incineration: The default option for most Tier 1 burner situations is multiple chambered incineration with emissions scrubbers installed to meet the province’s emission limits. As add-ons, both energy recovery for heating dry kilns and electricity production are possible with this type of system.

As existing plants in BC are mostly direct-fired, the following discussion focuses on this technology.

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