Two projects in the Smithers area are among 9 splitting just over 10 million dollars in funding from the Forest Enhancement Society of BC.
Each of the projects aim to reduce emissions, decrease wild fire risks, and create jobs by having wood waste transfered to mills, instead of being burned on site.
Garnering between 90 thousand and 3.5 million individually, the nine grantees are expected to remove 1.13 million cubic metres of wood waste from BC’s landscape.
In Smithers, Pinnacle Renewable Energy Inc gets 1.2 million in funding to help create wood pellets.
Another 2.5 million will go to Seaton Forest Products Limited to clear wood in the Smithers area to create cants.
At 3.4 million, the largest of the grants goes to Cariboo Chilcotin Rehabilitation, who will clear forests near Williams Lake for wood pellets.
