Grants and Contributions:

Amendment: Text modification / Value / Award previously disclosed for the 1st Quarter of 2013-2014. Grant or contribution awarded and spanning more than one fiscal year.

The objective of this project is to develop, improve and optimize sustainable forest bioenergy systems that are profitable and efficient in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation in forest communities. The project would enable the deployment of a biomass supply of 350,000 oven-dry tons allocated to Quebec cooperatives, which would replace the equivalent of over 4 million gigajoules of fossil energy, or over 300,000 tons of GHG. These benefits would be achieved following deployment of the biomass supply for adaptation to forest community settings in the rest of Canada. An add-on to the project was given to complement and add value to the existing project by conducting further field tests of biomass supply chains for efficient boilers. Additional technical processing, conditioning and transport of forest biomass will be tested within the forestry cooperatives in Quebec. The results of these tests will be analyzed and included in the final report for the entire project.