CBC
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The senior administrative officer of Wekweètì, N.W.T., says his community is mulling over the possibility of switching to wood biomass as a way to heat homes.
The idea, said Fred Behrens, is to install a biomass district heating system that would help provide heat to all the homes in the community.
It would involve a wood boiler, and a series of pipes that would connect each of Wekweètì's 28 households, as well as 10 larger buildings to provide heat.
"Then, instead of having to use their furnace or their woodstove, they would be connected to our boiler and get the heat from our system," Behrens said. "Depending on the cost of operating the whole system, we can decide if we want to sell the heat to our residents or just recoup our costs from all the major buildings and let the residents have free heat."
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