Please join host, Angelique Mitchell and guest, Suzanne Hearn, for the July 2011 Economic Outlook podcast as we discuss highlights from the June 2011 Economic Outlook publication. Continue reading →...»
For the past 4 years, I have thoroughly enjoyed being a part of the forest products industry. As the Marketing Manager for Forest2Market, I've had the good fortune to meet many in the industry who collectively represent the entire forest products supply chain from landowner to logger to paper company executives to owners of saw mills and lumber retail outlets.
"In the long term, a sustainable forest management strategy aimed at maintaining or increasing forest carbon stocks, while producing an annual sustained yield of timber, fiber, or energy from the forest, will generate the largest sustained mitigation benefit." --IPCC
Since the 2Q2006 inception of Forest2Market's delivered price benchmark for Southern markets, real wood fuel prices have trended higher, gaining $4.16/green ton or 27.4%. As Figure 1 shows, a majority of this increase occurred between 2Q2006 and 4Q2008, when prices ...
One of two states in the South with renewable electricity portfolio standards (REPS), North Carolina is now on a path to create 12.5% of its electricity from renewable by 2021. Investor-owned utilities must meet the following schedule for conversion to ...
Part 1: Food vs. Fuel for Thought Over dinner with friends a few weeks ago, the conversation turned to a socio-political topic and quickly became heated. As my friend's opinion was the opposite of mine, we both started using hypothetical ...
In the US, the rate of logging slash removal varies from region to region and even wood basin to wood basin. In markets where demand for biomass is well established-the upper Northeast where existing biomass power plants have been around for decades, ...
The Department of Energy recently published an update to its 2005 Billion Ton Study. In U.S. Billion-Ton Update: Biomass Supply for a Bioenergy and Bioproducts Industry, the DOE reaches similar conclusions to those it reached in the 2005 version ...
