Bioheat Theme Week – May 14, 2025
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Editor's Note 
 
Welcome to Bioheat Week! In today’s newsletter, read about bioheat innovation in Yellowknife, a champion of the bioheat sector, a wildfire prevention strategy, and more. Happy reading!
- Andrew Snook, Editor
 
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Celebrating Bioheat Week at Canadian Biomass!

It’s Bioheat Week! Canadian Biomass and our sister publications at Annex Business Media are putting a special focus on bioheat, including a collection of some of the best articles in our archive on the topic. Check out the latest bioheat news and features here.


Community Project of the Year Sissons Court: Yellowknife, N.W.T.

Operational since May 2022, Sissons Court’s biomass district heating plant provides sustainable wood pellet heat for public housing units in Yellowknife, N.W.T.


Slowing the spread: A biomass-focused wildfire prevention strategy

Every year around springtime, the federal, provincial and municipal governments begin preparing for wildfire season. These days, preparing for the season is more important than ever as the size of the fires has increased significantly in recent years.


 
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Join the Wood Pellet Association of Canada Today!

On behalf of our members, the Wood Pellet Association of Canada:
  • Pursues market access and solves trade barriers
  • Helps improve pellet plant safety
  • Promotes Canadian pellet sustainability, quality and reliability
  • Increases pellet use in the domestic market
  • Provides frequent networking opportunities
If you are interested in joining us, please visit pellet.org/members. » Learn more
 
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Champion of the Year: David Dubois

David Dubois has been a champion of the bioheat sector for much of his career. From working on not-for-profit projects like the Green Heat Initiative and Wood Waste to Rural Heat, to helping developing new standards for biomass boilers, teaching bioenergy at Lakeland College, and his work at Fink Machine, he has been deeply ingrained within the world of bioheat. » Read More...
 
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Nature and nurture

Custom installations at a New Brunswick tree nursery and elementary school highlight the versatility of pellet heat. » Read More...
 
 
News 
 

Pursuing a new CSA Standard to heat Canada with wood pellets

As the world’s coldest country, Canada consumes a lot of energy for home heating. Space heating accounts for 64 percent of Canadian residential, commercial and institutional energy consumption. » Read More...

Combined heat and power 101

The Wood Pellet Association of Canada (WPAC) recently partnered with the Arctic Energy Alliance (AEA) to produce 2025 Northwest Territories Biomass Week, a five-day event designed to help pellet producers, equipment manufacturers, installers, regulators, researchers, academia, governments and others to learn more about how biomass is transforming the way we think about energy, especially in Canada’s North. » Read More...

Global wood pellet markets

2024 in review and thoughts on the next decades. » Read More...

 
Events 
 

Atlantic BIOCON    -    June 3, 2025

June 3, 2025 | Delta Saint John Saint John, N.B. » Read More...

WPAC 2025 Conference    -    September 23, 2025

September 23, 2025 | Halifax Marriott Harbourfront 1919 Upper Water St, Halifax, NS B3J 3J5 » Read More...