Lavington Okanagan Fibre Utilization Project

This project entails transporting uneconomic residual waste wood to a pellet plant and a power plant to avoid pile burning emissions and improve fibre utilization. Most of the residual uneconomic fibre is the result of regular commercial forest harvesting in the Okanagan area. A new approach to producing "bio-logs" is increasing the amount of fibre that is recoverable during the timber harvesting operation. Recovering these "bio-logs" concurrently with a primary timber harvesting operation creates efficiencies and lowers the delivered cost of the fibre to facilities such as Pinnacle Pellet Lavington. In the Okanagan area, many of the timber harvesting sites are on steep and narrow forestry roads, which makes bush grinding very challenging and often impossible. This new method of creating a bio-log sort enables the fibre to be transported on regular logging trucks and unloaded using conventional equipment in mill log yards.