Keith Halliday, Yukon News
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It’s always fun to visit another northern capital and check in on how our circumpolar friends are doing.
I was recently in Yellowknife, where I learned about its new and award-winning project to heat a whole district of municipal buildings with wood chip pellets. The new system is installed and ready to be fired up for winter.
The project heats five large municipal buildings, including the arena, field house, fire hall and two garages. It replaces fossil fuels with centralized wood-fired heat that is then piped to all the buildings. Experts refer to this kind of thing as biomass district heating.
It’s expected to save over $150,000 per year, and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 869 tonnes annually. It will also create additional local jobs once a local pellet factory gets going.
For now, the pellets are from Alberta or British Columbia, where logging mills have lots of surplus wood chips.
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