As climate change and global warming become more urgent, Canada’s forest sector is exploring new ways to deliver the secure, affordable, and sustainable energy that will help decarbonize our economy and reduce our country’s reliance on fossil fuels.

By converting wood chips, sawdust, and bark — materials that might otherwise be considered “waste” — into the bioenergy, our sector has created a renewable, low-carbon energy source to power our operations and reduce emissions.^[14]

That same technology has the potential to not only help Canada’s remote communities reduce their reliance on fossil fuels, but to help other sectors of the economy decarbonize and our country as a whole reduce its carbon footprint.^[25]