The Meadow Lake Tribal Council, comprised of nine First Nations, has opened the first 100 percent Indigenous-owned bioenergy facility in Canada. The facility uses wood waste generated from the tribal council's sawmill to generate heat and power.
to generate electricity have faced mounting criticism, both for what is happening in the forest and for the carbon emissions produced by burning the pellets. However, this facility uses leftover wood from trees that were already cut down for lumber that's used to build homes or furniture.Our CBC News crew was the first to be shown the bioenergy facility, now operational after months of delays.
The Meadow Lake Tribal Council's sawmill feeds its wood waste, including wood chips, bark, and sawdust, to the newly-constructed bioenergy centre adjacent to the sawmill.The MLTC began exploring the idea of a biomass power plant in 2008. Al Balisky is the chief executive officer at MLTC Industrial Investments based in Meadow Lake, Sask. He stands in front of the $100-million bioenergy centre constructed near the northern city.
Of that total price, about $35 million in contracts went to Indigenous companies, according to Al Balisky, who oversees all of MLTC's investment projects. Balisky said the "biggest challenge" was getting the money to "pull it all together." He said it wouldn't make commercial sense for a private company to pursue this kind of clean energy project without taxpayer funding.
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