Inuvik pellet project aims to turn waste cardboard into warmth
Inuvik sends around 100 tons of waste cardboard to its landfill each year. A pilot project of the Aurora Research Institute hopes to change that.
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Posted: Feb 22, 2021 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: February 22
Patrick Gall of the Aurora Research Institute in Inuvik, N.W.T., is shown alongside a machine that turns waste cardboard into pellets that can be used to fuel for boilers.(Patrick Gall)
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OTTAWA, ON, Feb. 9, 2021 /CNW/ - The Government of Canada is working with partners to reduce Northern communities reliance on diesel for heating and electricity by increasing the use of local renewable energy sources and improving energy efficiency.
Today, the Honourable Daniel Vandal, Minister of Northern Affairs, and Michael McLeod, Member of Parliament for Northwest Territories, announced that the Northern Responsible Energy Approach for Community Heat and Electricity program (Northern REACHE) provided financial support of $95,000 to the Aurora Research Institute, in association with Delta Enterprises, a Gwitch in owned company, to study the potential of converting waste cardboard into pellets as biomass feedstock for heating homes and businesses throughout Inuvik.
The studies themselves are designed around basically answering straightforward Canadian questions, Dallimore explained.
That includes questions around the stability of offshore permafrost, Dallimore said along with learning more about under sea pingos and how landslides happen and whether they are a threat to producing a tsunami, for example. We actually know almost nothing about that environment, Dallimore said. We have very few surveys of that area because of course it s hard to get vessels up there to do research and very few documentations of actual processes … and even habitat assessments are very limited in the nearshore.
Dallimore said that although the nearshore environment and wildlife in the study areas are very important to residents of the regions, such as the Inuvialuit in the Western Arctic, the geoscience studies in that environment are extremely limited.