Wood Pellets

A smiling man squats beside a wood stove operating beside him.

Wood and pellet stoves are popular heating choices in rural homes

December 31, 2024 by Elizabeth Oakley

There’s nothing like the cozy feeling you get when you heat your home with a wood stove or a pellet stove. Beyond the radiant warmth, modern-day stoves have a higher efficiency than any other heating method on the market today. That’s why they’re to go-to system for the majority of rural community residents.

Ian Myers has been a chimney sweep in Haliburton County for 17 years and says these stoves are safer than baseboards and masonry fireplaces.

By ensuring your system is properly installed and regularly cleaned, wood stoves and pellet stoves are an economical choice – especially if there are frequent power outages. The growth in their popularity is proof positive more people are buying in to the many advantages they offer. Ian recommends reading and following the best practices outlined in manuals and monitoring the system to maintain peak efficiency and safety.

A palm of a hand holds wood pellets, a common form of bio-fuel made from biomass in BC. The pellets are cylindrical in shape, and measure approximately inch long and 1/4 inch wide.

More than just sawdust — the pros and cons of the wood fibre industry

February 7, 2024 by Ian Gregg

Sawdust, mulch, and hamster bedding, all are forms of wood fiber. And there is a lot of it being produced in the Prince George area.

Formerly a waste byproduct, the uses for wood fiber continues to grow in the form of manufactured wood products such as particle board furniture, veneer, flooring, shingles and siding; and biofuel in the form of wood pellets.

As requirements for fiber expand, so do its sources. It’s commonly understood that after a forest fire has burned through a stand of timber, its value is lost and that loss can be recovered by extracting fiber from it.

CFUR News talks to Dr. Phil Burton, recently retired from UNBC’s Environmental Science department. He admits that there are many good reasons for removing some trees from a stressed forest, but the research shows that it can go too far.

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Wood Pellets

Wood and pellet stoves are popular heating choices in rural homes

More than just sawdust — the pros and cons of the wood fibre industry

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