On-farm energy production has role to play in national energy strategy
The need for collaboration between agriculture and government was one of the key points raised at a green energy conference held in London earlier this week.
“Some ministries were not aware of how other ministries were treating energy,” says the event’s committee co-chair Mike Bouk of Agriculture Energy Cooperative in Guelph. (The cooperative provides energy products and services to members). “There has to be a national strategy for energy.”
Bouk says generating energy from biomass would have a role to play in such a strategy. Biomass includes living and recently dead biological material that can be used for fuel of industrial production such as fibers, chemicals or heat.
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