Site eyed south of Burns Lake

Cheslatta Forest Products and Pristine Power announced today they signed an agreement to build a proposed $40-million energy plant in northern B.C. that uses wood waste, and possibly beetle-killed timber.

Under the proposal, the power plant would use Vancouver-based Nexterra Energy's gasification technology, already in use at a Tolko plywood plant near Kamloops.

Pristine Power, a Calgary-based company, announced earlier this year it hoped to spend $500 million to build 15 power plants in the B.C. Interior that would utilize wood waste from sawmills and beetle-killed wood. Cheslatta Forest Products is a joint venture of Prince George-based Carrier Lumber, the Cheslatta Carrier Nation and a community-based company.

The two groups lauded the environmental benefits of the project, but acknowledged it needs a deal with B.C. Hydro and access to more wood.

The plant would be build next to the Cheslatta sawmill which is located south of Burns Lake, about 200 kilometres southwest of Prince George.

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