Biomass Brokerage Manitoba

1. Biomass Brokerage Manitoba • work to date: • Chad Effa • Lucille Barnabe • Andrew Friesen • Andry Giesbrecht • & • Bruce Duggan

2. A Brokerage? • examples • Manitoba Buy & Sell • kijiji • eBay • Canadian Overseas Log & Lumber • Lumber Brokers Worldwide • Manitoba Hay Registry • Pellet Zone

3. A Brokerage Creates a Market • links all participants together • reduces search cost & effort • finding customers • finding suppliers • finding shippers, storers, equipment, expertise, advice, examples... • reduces transaction costs • standardizes contracts & other arrangements • a brokerage is essential to the development of a biomass industry in Manitoba

4. source form ship store consume return straw food production residue loose shed cattails bale stoker truck barn willow cube ash stove forestry residue silo rail pelletize generator urban forest prunings elevator char wood production residue

5. completed Project Flow Chart in process not started research brokerages

6. completed research producers hire staff in process not started research consumers register name research processors open bank account research shippers set up email research brokerages secure start-up funds launch research storers set up phone research equip set up web site draft budget draft contract template draft database equip office

7. Continually adding new information. draft database

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13. draft budget

14. Consider silos, elevators, A-frames, unused agribusiness facilities. Researching availability & cost. research storage

15. Consider silos, elevators, A-frames, unused agribusiness facilities Researching availability & cost. research storage

16. Have contacted known suppliers. They report insufficient demand to produce on large scale. research suppliers Current focus on Hutteritecolonies & other current coal users. Need to understand interest. research consumers

17. Investigate cattails as biomass source research producers

18. “artificial” fertilizers sewage farms gardens lawns Phosphorus & Nitrogen lake cut cattails grow cattails dry cattails process ash compost densify cattails CO2 transport ash burn cubes transport cubes municipalities agri-business commercial kitchens natural gas HEAT CO2 coal

19. Investigate uses for biochar research processors

20. Need to understand production capabilities, and costs associated with operation. research processors

21. completed research producers hire staff in process not started research consumers register name research processors open bank account research shippers set up email research brokerages secure start-up funds launch research storers set up phone research equip set up web site draft budget draft contract template draft database equip office

22. Biomass Brokerage Manitoba work to date: Chad Effa Lucille Barnabe Andrew Friesen AndryGiesbrecht & Bruce Duggan