Nova Scotia holds community hearings over wood biomass power project

In Canada, community hearings are being held in Halifax to discuss the proposal to build a biomass-fueled power generation station in Cape Breton. Nova Scotia Power Inc. and NewPage Port Hawkesbury Corp. are requesting permission from the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board to burn 650,000 tons of wood per year. This would produce nearly 3 percent of the province’s total electricity requirement, or supply roughly 50,000 homes.

This new plant would require about 50 percent more wood than NewPage already burns at its mill in Port Hawkesbury. The Company plans to compensate by securing 25 per cent from waste at the paper mill and another 25 per cent from bark and chips sourced from sawmills. The remaining 50 per cent would come from forest trees, from both private woodlots and government-owned land.

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