It wants to acquire a former pulp mill in the Ontario town of Marathon, about 780km northwest of Toronto on the north shore of Lake Superior, and install equipment to convert wood chips into "torrefied" pellets.
Tom Logan, president of parent company Protocol Energy, tells Recharge that the process of torrefaction pyrolysis roasts wood residue into a black charcoal that can be pulverised and converted into pellets that burn like coal.
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