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“Like other advanced economies, we are undergoing a significant economic transformation here in [Eastern] Ontario. The rise of the creative economy is to be welcomed. Our goal is to raise the creativity content in all our jobs and industries” Ontario in the Creative Age, Martin Prosperity Institute, February 2009 The Steering Committee and Technical Advisory Group" Members 2010
Dr. Peter Hall, Co-chair Councillor Frank Noccey, Co-chair Brian Barkley, Special Advisor Tony Bull, VP of Eastern Ontario Model Forest (EOMF) Councillor Hugh Cameron Mayor Larry Dishaw Sandra Lawn, Project Leader EOMF Councillor Lawrence Levere Ian Manson, Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry Mark Richardson, GM of EOMF Russell Trivett, CAO, Township of Edwardsburgh/ Cardinal
March 2010
Technical Advisory Group (TAG)
TAG members represent the research, business, forest, government and NGO communities; all are dedicated to forest and community sustainability through innovation. The TAG hasn’t met recently as a whole but approximately 40 meetings in the past year have included TAG members on an as-needed basis. This has worked well and great progress has been made thanks to the dedication and belief that together, we have the capacity to link forest resources and our knowledge and transportation corridors using innovation, determination and creativity.
Port of Prescott
Key to the success of the OEWC &EIP (Wood Centre) is the $34.7 million infrastructure project now underway at the Port. The management at the Port works closely with the OEWC &EIP group. The Port is owned and managed by the Township and serves all of Eastern Ontario and some of Western Québec. As the only deep sea port between Oshawa and Valleyfield, Québec, it is key geographic advantage for the Wood Centre and the entire region. See www.portofprescott.com The Wood Centre will be federally incorporated soon. We are focused on implementing the corporate objectives below:
!the encouragement of a forest and biomass based and innovation-inspired cluster of industrial, business and demonstration projects in an ecologically sound environment the facilitation of a platform for scientific collaboration, business development, demonstration, piloting, commercialization, exporting and marketing of a wide array of innovative value-added wood and biomass products, including but not limited to: solid wood building components, biochemicals and bioenergy assistance to the forest industry in creating uses for underutilized, lower value wood in Eastern Ontario and the region and participation in the!restructuring of the forest industry of the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence forest for the benefit of rural communities!and in partnership with a variety of other organizations, academic institutions, individuals and agencies with compatible goals. !
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From the start One of Dr.Sally Krigstin’s current projects at the U of T, is the measurement of available forest biomass in Eastern Ontario. The draft report is complete, following extensive contact with the forest industry in the Ottawa Valley. FPInnovations
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bioeconomy; a helpful initiative. Financial support In total, $1.4 million dollars from the Township of Edwardsburgh/ Cardinal, EOMF, the Regional Eastern Ontario Development Program, the Grenville County Community Futures Business Corporation, the Rural Secretariat of Agriculture Canada and thousands of dollars of in-kind support from EOMF, IRAP, TAG members, the Township, our academic partners and countless volunteer hours is keeping everything moving.
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students to make contact with the forest industry in the Ottawa Valley. Three fourth-year Engineering and Applied Science students are working on a TEAM project identifying the best business opportunities utilizing the chemical transformation of woody biomass. Senior scientists with wide industrial experience are guiding them.
Community Colleges
In September, La Cité collégiale, Algonquin College 2009 Frank and St. Lawrence College have MOUs Noccey, Mark with us (all but one are signed.) A Richardson and March 19th meeting at La Cité will Sandra Lawn met coordinate efforts. Each college is with Pierre active in applied biotechnology and/or Lapointe, marketing and construction trades with President of wood and much more. This is a most FPInnovations, FPI in Québec City encouraging development with great Hervé Deschênes promise. and Gerald Beaulieu in Québec City. The meeting was productive and the first result has been FPI’s partnering Queen’s University support: with the EOMF on a proposal for technical guidance. The opportunity for In March 2009, Queen’s Business further collaboration is ongoing. Consulting completed the Ontario Wood Science and Innovation Centre A Case Study for rural communities in Strategic Business Case Outline. Canada In December 2009, six final year Industry Canada’s Patrick Huot is Commerce students completed a plan documenting how a rural community, for trading solid wood products with with effort and imagination can East Asia. Brian Barkley assisted the effectively participate in the
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The Faculty of Law’s Business Law Clinic (QBLC) has just completed the documentation for incorporation of the
Working together with Queen’s and GreenField Ethanol
Queen’s engineering students and advisors meet with Brian Gartley Production Manager of the GreenField Ethanol Plant at Johnstown on the OEWC site. TEAM is utilizing Moxy Knowledge Management for facilitating their project.
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Post-biomass-trial forest in the Ottawa Valley
GreenField Ethanol at Johnstown (above)
The folks at GreenField in their letter of understanding, stated “this centre is ideally positioned to bridge the gap between scientific and technological discoveries and the subsequent commercialization of innovative utilization of innovative utilization of forest and agricultural feed stocks and associated byproducts.” The plant is now successfully operating at 110% of capacity and is currently researching cellulosic ethanol at their Chatham location. SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry State University of New York, College of Environmental Science & Forestry and EOMF MOU Working Group met December 8, 2009 at the test sites for fast growing poplars and willows at the Ferguson Forest Centre. With 20 years of research on cellulosic ethanol from wood, SUNY-ESF is a key partner. A meeting with Tom Amidon and others is slated for March 18, 2010 baled willow at FFS
indicators of Progress
meeting with David Anderson, Parliamentary Secretary for NRCAN, April 2009 Speaker at Cogen Canada CHP Association Conference in Ottawa, June 2009; again in June 2010 Southern Ontario Feasibility Biomass Trials: with FERIC, EOMF, Mazinaw/ Lanark, Heideman, Norampac, Canadian Wood Fibre Centre, U of T Faculty of Forestry, OMNR and Shaw Lumber Presentation to UNESCO Decade of Peace project in Kingston Presentation to OCRI’s Ottawa Clean Tech Initiative, September 2009; conference coming up in April exhibitors at OECD Rural Development Conference in Québec City, October 2009 building a “road map” with DGS/ Environmental Project Management Solutions Presentation to Bioproducts/Green Technology forum on February 5, 2010 Presented “the Ontario Model of Forest Conservation” at Conservation and Forestry Symposium in Orford, Québec, February 2010. New partnerships are developing re: the Great Lakes/ St.Lawrence Forest we share with southern Québec
Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry now has responsibility for forestry across Ontario.
courtesy SUNY ESF www.woodcentre.ca!
restructuring of the southern/eastern Ontario forest industry. A tour of the MaRS Innovation centre in downtown Toronto reconfirmed our vision of innovation in creating a wide range of products from sustainably managed mixed hard wood forests - the most significant in North America. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council(NSERC) is “shaping tomorrow’s forest industry through R&D.” This was the subject of our March 2, 2010 meeting in Ottawa. Budget 2010 included the word “forest” or “forestry” 33 times; a good sign? We know Canada can use and export bioproducts in all three sectors: value-added materials, energy and chemicals. the OEWC will be a Flagship Demonstration Project utilizing sustainable forest and woody crops, on a transportation system that serves the entire Great Lakes/St.Lawrence economic trading area and all domestic and international markets available via the Atlantic ocean and beyond. Editor’s note Many thanks to those who help and inspire our initiative and to those who believe nothing can stand in our way. We need your continued support and enthusiasm.
On February 9, 2010 a consultation was held with Minister Michael Gravelle at Queen’s Park. The minister encouraged us and we have worked out a strategy with him Thanks also to Leo Hall and Brian Barkley to make Ontario a strong partner in the for photos.
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