A Fort St James area project has become the first to benefit from new expansions to the province’s Indigenous Forest Bioeconomy Program.
Initially launched in 2019, the program provides funding for projects which use wood waste or debris to create new low-carbon forest-based products.
Through the new accelerator program, the province will provide an additional $3.9 million over the next 3 years for projects at the pilot, commercialization, or scale-up phases.
$90,000 of that will help Deadwood Innovations in Fort St James upgrade their manufacturing plant to enable commercial production.
A joint venture with the Nak’azdli Whut’en First Nation, Deadwood works to transform mountain pine beetle and wildfire damaged timber into value-added engineered wood products.
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