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Catalyst Paper Pulp Mill Receives Funding for Sludge Conversion Project
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Crofton, British Columbia, Canada, 10 December 2010 -- (Marketwire) -- The government of Canada announced today an investment in new Canadian technology designed to improve the environmental performance and competitiveness of the forest products manufacturing sector. The CAD 2.5 million investment project will take place at the Catalyst Paper mill in Crofton, British Columbia.

The investment is part of the government's Transformative Technologies Pilot Scale Demonstration Program. Delivered through FPInnovations, this funding will see the implementation of state-of-the-art technologies to convert waste sludge at the Crofton pulp and paper mill into biogas and fertilizer.

"Our government is investing in the evolution of Canada's forest industry by encouraging the development and adoption of Canadian technology," said The Honourable Stockwell Day, President of the Treasury Board, Minister for Asia Pacific Gateway, and Minister responsible for British-Columbia. "Projects like this one are essential to opening up market opportunities both at home and abroad, and to protecting Canadian jobs in forest-dependent communities."

Technology developed by Paradigm Environmental Technologies will be used to convert pulping sludge into renewable energy and fertilizer, decreasing capital and operating cost by replacing natural gas with biogas. This will help reduce the mill's carbon footprint and landfill waste.

Other funding for the project includes a CAD 1 million contribution from the British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Mines and Lands and a CAD 1.5 million contribution from the British Columbia Bioenergy Network to Elemental Energy, the industrial lead on this project. Additional in-kind contributions are being made by Elemental Energy and Paradigm Environmental Technologies in conjunction with the University of British Columbia. Catalyst Paper also is contributing CAD 1.12 million, which brings total funding to CAD 6.12 million.

"We are excited to be implementing an innovative technology that has the potential to increase efficiency across the entire BC pulp and paper industry," said Michael Weedon, executive director of the British Columbia Bioenergy Network. "The creation of a Collaborative Development and Demonstration Centre in the pulp and paper industry is another step toward developing a world-class bioenergy industry in British Columbia," he said.

"This exciting demonstration program is an example of how the government and industry can work together to implement innovative technologies to reduce cost and find innovative ways to generate clean and renewable energy from waste and help the forest industry to become more environmentally sustainable," said Gordon Skene, president and CEO of Paradigm Environmental Technologies.

Part of the strategic investments under the government's two-year Economic Action Plan, the CAD 40 million Transformative Technologies Pilot Scale Demonstration Program is administered by FPInnovations and supports moving new technologies from the laboratory into pre-commercial, pilot-scale demonstration projects at mill sites to demonstrate how these new products can be commercialized.
 

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