Go Green, Go Renewable, Go Pellets
Wood pellets are Canada’s green energy choice. In a country such as Canada, wood pellets are infinitely renewable. Pellets burn cleanly with extremely low emissions and are considered to be carbon neutral. The CO2 released from burning pellets is the same as if the tree died and rotted where it grew. In time, new trees will absorb that CO2 anew. Therefore, burning pellets does not contribute to global warming. In fact biomass energy, including pellets, is a major part of the sollution to achieving Kyoto targets in leading countries such as Sweden, Finland, Denmark, France and Austria. They all have geography similar to Canada. And our resources far exceed all of those countries put together.
Choosing to heat your home or business with wood pellets offers many advantages to users. Firstly, pellet heating is very competitive, especially with heating oil. In general terms, one can expect that heating with pellets purchased in bulk will be about half the cost of heating with heating oil. Savings can be greater than 50% in areas with abundant pellet supplies.
In considering the purchase of a pellet heating system, the most important factor is not what the price of fossil energy is at a given point in time, but rather what you think the trend-line is in fossil energy prices. A state-of-the-art pellet heating system is a long-term investment. It will provide all your heating and domestic hot water needs for perhaps twenty years or more.
Oil is a volatile commodity that goes up and down dramatically with political events and the state of the world economy. World oil consumption is continuing to grow and the trend for oil prices is upward as the GDP (gross domestic product) and energy consumption of newly industrialized countries such as Brazil, Russia, India and China steadily rises.
There are many environmental impacts to the production and use of fossil fuel products. First, and foremost is the effect of CO2 emissions on our climate. There are also upstream environmental impacts such as the recent catastrophic oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico as well as the normal flaring of by-products and the refining of oil. Domestic heating oil spills are harmful to drinking water and extremely expensive to clean up. With natural gas we have the sour gas wells and frequent explosions from gas leaks, sometimes with disastrous results. Chronic gas leakage from pipelines is also known to be a significant environmenmtal problem.
People choosing pellets do not need to concern themselves with these problems. Wood pellets, produced locally in Canada, offer price stability and peace of mind in a turbulent world. Canadian pellet production exceeds domestic consumption by at least ten times. Canadian pellet producers are keen to supply pellets for your home or business.
Pellets are a very safe product to produce, transport, store and use. If a pellet delivery truck were to tip over on the highway, the greatest environmental danger would come not from the spilled pellets, but rather from the diesel fuel used by the truck. (Pellets are actually very effective for absorbing spilled oil.)
The production and delivery of wood pellets is quite labour intensive. Pellet production has created thousands of new direct jobs in Canada. And pellet production strengthens private woodlot, commercial forestry, and sawmill enterprises in rural communities across Canada.
Choosing pellets to heat our homes, businesses and institutions in Canada is a win win scenario for us all.
Go Green, Go renewable, Go Pellets Canada !!
