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Building Partnerships
for Eco-Industrial
Development
A presentation
By Sandra S. Lawn, Project Leader
OEWC & Eco-Industrial Park
Outline of Presentation
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History
The Ontario East Wood Centre & Eco-Industrial
Dealing with the science
Introduction to the concept
The networks and the partnerships
Dealing with complexity
Challenges
Opportunities
Essential Partnerships
History
•Haudinasaunee perspective
•Mixed wood forests plus
•Dr. Ross Silversides’ inspiration
•South Grenville Economic
Development Commission
initiative in 1980s
•Industry Canada support
•Noranda Forest Products
support
•Value Added Wood Centre for
Edwardsburgh Township:
European search for markets late
1980’s to 1992; incl. DIY markets
•Project “on hold” until 2004 now
taking off!!!
An invaluable partnership for EOMF; Principles of the
Haudinasauni Naturalized Knowledge System
•Earth is our mother
•The spiritual world is close to
us
•Cooperation is the key to
survival
•Responsibility is the best
practice
•Knowledge is powerful only
when shared
•Everything is connected to
everything else
•Place is important
(Henry Lickers:
Director of the Environment,
Akwesasne)
The Eastern Ontario Model Forest 19922007 - 15 years of solid partnership building
The EOMF - a model of working
partnerships; private and public
And now the CFS Forest
Communities Program: 2007 -2012
•Eleven sites chosen across
Canada, EOMF leads
•A Forest Sector in Transition
•Energy, Economics and
Ecology
•Need for Ecological Goods
and Services
•Bridging the Disconnect
Between Urban and Rural
•Forest Health, Dynamic
Ecosystems and Species at
Risk
•And in EOMF: the Wood
Centre reinvented
•Map showing forest availability, 300km
radius
“Bioeconomy” definition fits well:
An economic system in which biological resources
like forests, agriculture, aquatic ecosystems provide
not just food, feed and fibre, but also energy,
chemicals and materials, as well as environmental
benefits such as greenhouse gas emission
reductions.
Source
BIOCAP
“Nature chose just four elements - carbon,
hydrogen,oxygen and nitrogen to create all living things”*
* Gregory C. Unruh, “The Biosphere Rules,”
Harvard Business Review, February 2008
Cellulose - what a molecule!!
Linear homopolymer composed of several thousand
monomer units (β-D-glucose) units linked end to end.
Absence of branches allows the chains to come in close
contact and bond to one another.
3 hydroxyl groups available on each glucose unit
– Many OH groups make it very hydrophilic
– Forms a very strong, rigid structure through lateral bonding of
hydroxyl and oxygen.
– Crystalline regions and amorphous regions
» University of Toronto; Faculty of Forestry
Greenhouses
BioRefinery
Chemicals
Aquaculture
Product
promotion
Bioenergy
Research
Education
Conferences
BioPlastics
Eco-tourism
Wood
Industry
Building
Materials
Auto
Parts
Research
Research
Recycling
FEEDSTOCKS
Everything is connected:
•sustainable forestry in Northern and
Eastern Ontario, Northern New York
and Western Québec (FSC standard)
•Concern about climate change,
energy and the environment
•Materials for accomplishing LEED
standards
•“Green” housing components
• housing for Canada’s north
•fast-growing plantations of poplar,
willow and other cellulosic feedstock
•niche markets; extractives
•export directly to heart of U.S.,
Europe, India and Asia
• demonstration/pilot projects
•field studies
•inter-disciplinary and inter-university
collaboration
“ 1 million cubic metres of sustainable supply from hard wood forests” Wayne
Young; 45 mills generate 1 billion board feet of SPF lumber annually, flowing into
Southern Ontario using these two highway systems
Prescott
“Co-operation is the way to survive”
partners and supporters
•EOMF
•Township of
Edwardsburgh/Cardinal
•Ontario Ministry of Natural
Resources
•Akwesasne Department of
the Environment
•Canadian Forest Service
•Woodlot owners
•Environment Canada
•Ontario MOE
•Community Futures
Development Corporations
•Politicians
•FSC and Smartwood
•University of Toronto
•Ottawa University
•National Research Council
Canada
•Land Stewardship Councils
•Sawmillers
•Value added wood industry
•State University of New York;
Syracuse
•United Counties of Leeds &
Grenville
•Ferguson Forest Station
•BIOCAP (in past)
•Poplar Council of Canada
•Queen’s and Guelph
Universities and hopefully McGill
University
The OEWC - bringing partners together
•Sustainability of forests and
communities
•Community interest and support
•Forest sector in transition
•Energy supply and security
•LEED standards encouraged
•Globalization
•Tapping World Class Expertise
– Technical Advisory Group
of scientists, academia,
industry, government,
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“multi-disciplinary”
•Local Leadership
– Township of
Edwardsburgh/Cardinal:
Wood Centre Committee
– Steering Committee guiding
project
•Region-wide value chain
U.S.
Port
Bridge
Park
Airport
Unsurpassed transportation and land availability
Hwy 416
to Ottawa
To Montreal >
Johnstown
Hwy 401
< To Toronto
Edwardsburgh/Cardinal
Industrial Park and Ethanol plant under construction
Ontario East
Wood Centre &
Eco-Industrial Park
County Rd 2
to Prescott
Bird’s Eye View
Ogdensburg
Int’l Bridge
to USA
Port of Prescott
Building the Vision for an eco-industrial
cluster based on wood fibre
Preliminary Concepts for RD&D:
LEED standards recommended
(Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design)
Totten Sims Hubicki
Associates
The Implementation Team
•Eight talented people:
foresters, MBAs, researchers,
entreprenuers …
•Out into communities,
universities, forests and wood
related business, advancing
the concept
•Tools designed by TD
Graham + Associates
•Funded by Eastern Ontario
Development Program
(Fed/Nor)
Valuable extractives, pharmaceutical,
nutriceuticals, energy and…
SUNY, Faculty of
Environment and
Forestry
Benefits to university partners:
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Research partnerships with a range of companies, topics and products.
From forest inventory and transportation, field studies to engineering,
to nano-technology - to socio-economic research
Incubator space for developing research to the next stage, lab to product
Training of students, internships, employment
Mentoring of new companies, including consulting contracts
Space to build pilot plants and other facilities
Cost-sharing and availability of a wide range of wood materials, and
other forest related plant materials
Access to IRAP resources and funding, anticipated MOU between
IRAP and EOMF
Diversity of universities and professors for synergy and collaboration
Research, Development and Demonstration
The challenges
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Defining the right working relationships
Improving bio-feedstocks info and infrastructure
Enabling trusting collaboration
Inspiring internal stakeholders
Building on heritage relationships
The complexity of many connected features
Maintaining focus
Managing our energy
Ensuring the right skills for wide variety of tasks
Different partners; different cultures
Integrating a wide variety of Canada and Ontario action
plans
Opportunities for:
• small and medium enterprise
• multi-nationals
• Research, Development and Demonstration:
public (universities and governments) and private
• Suppliers and services
• forest owners (80% of close-by forests 1 million
cubic metres of sustainable yearly growth is
privately owned!)
• wood related business; FSC chain of custody
• Sawmillers
• Young people
• the community, the province, the country
Acknowledgements
•Sally Krigstin, Faculty of
Forestry U of T
•Ian Manson, OMNR
•Brian Barkley, EOMF
•Township of
Edwardsburgh/Cardinal
•SUNY; Faculty of Forestry
and the Environment
•TD Graham + Associates
•Totten Sims Hubicki Assoc.
•Sandra S.Lawn & Associates
Inc.
•Denzil Doyle, Doyletech