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Page posted Nov 26, 2024
These are rough estimates based on public available info.
‘Will be revised as better data are obtained or (preferably), government/industry produce authoritative, publicly available stats.
– Updated Nov 8, 2025
| Entity | Current or Projected |
Green Tonnes per annum |
Comments |
| PHP | Current | 700,000 | Heat &Electricity, 60 MW generator |
| Brooklyn Energy | Current | 325,000 | Heat & Electricity 30 MW generator |
| Hefler | Current | 40,000 | Heat & Electricity 3.7 MW generator |
| Dalhousie AC Campus Truro | Current | 20,000 | Heat, and 1 MW electriciy generator |
| Shaw Resouces- pellets | Current | 105,000 | Assume 2.1 Green Tonnes/Tonne Pellets |
| GNT- Pellets | Current | 210,000 | Comments |
| Northern Pulp Pictou | Current | 281,000 | 26 MW, estimated GT.Not clear if ongoing in 2024 |
| BDO SW Nova Scotia | Projected | 550,000 | Comments |
| Simply Blue | Projected | 750,000 | Green Hydrogen project |
| Chip Exports | Current | 400,000 | estimate |
| District Heating** | Current | 3,800,000 | estimate |
| Other | Current | 100,000 | Guesstimate |
| Total | Current & Projected |
7,281,000 |
NOTES Northern Pulp before it closed took in approx 265,000 odt roundwood fibre, and 263,000 odt sawmill by-products per annum (source: Feedstock Availability and Cost in Nova Scotia By County and Specific Locations. FP Innovations, NS Innovation Hub, Aug 2021) approx. equal to 1,056,000 Green Tonnes (assuming 50% moisture). When it closed, apparently much or most of the “roundwood fibre” came from chips produced by sawmills processing smaller diameter roundwood from thinnings, treetops etc. (see Pulp Culture: How Nova Scotia’s Faustian bargain with the pulp industry may leave the sawmills in ruins Linda Pannozzo in Halifax Examiner Mar 12, 2019; also Forest Thinnings for Integrated Lumber and Paper Production, J.Y. Zhu et al., 2007 in Forest Products Journal )
Sources
– **Local Energy, Healthy Forests, Strong Communities: Strategy for a Nova Scotia Alternative Energy Future by Jamie Stephen et al., Torchlight Bioresources, Feb 2025, page 17
– Nova Scotia Biomass FAQ on forestdefenders.eu (2021)
– https://www.dal.ca/content/dam/www/about/mission-vision-and-values/sustainability/energy-green-building-plan.pdf
– http://nsforestnotes.ca/2018/11/22/can-dalhousieac-lead-the-way-on-proper-accounting-for-bioenergy-in-nova-scotia/
– https://novascotia.ca/nse/ea/nova-sustainable-fuels-renewable-energy/
Update Feb 9, 2025
Screncapture from a presentation by Jamie Stephen posted on Youtube, at approx 27:00 min..Title: How to cut Maritime GHG emissions by 30% by 2030 These figures are for NB, NS and PEI combined. The annual fibre requirement is equivalent to the total wood harvests for NS circa 2000 when our forests were seriously degraded by overharvesting. (His numbers and assumptions- explicit and implicit – need to be critically reviewed!)