Our percentage of use of wood pellets is less than 1%. According to Statistics Canada, only about 50% of the country is actually covered by the natural gas grid, and natural gas is a fairly low emitter compared to fuel oil or coal, but wood pellets are exponentially lower-carbon and are the next lowest-cost option compared to fuel oil, propane or other kinds of options like that.
The barrier to using more wood pellets in Canada is the access to the boiler technology. It's the kind of appliances. In Europe, they're widespread. There are hundreds of European manufacturers. People run them off their smart phones; they're fully automated. It's nothing like filling a fireplace. You start it, and you run it for six months. You clean the ash pan, and then you run it for another six months. If you want more heat, you turn up the thermostat; if you want less, you turn it down. It's totally automated, but we can't use these systems in Canada because of the regulatory standards. If European boiler manufacturers want to sell their products in Canada, they have to redesign them, which is very expensive, or they have to run them as open systems—run them unpressurized, so they run at very low efficiency. Therefore, most of the European boiler manufacturers can't be bothered with Canada.
We're working with the CSA and working through CETA, the European trade agreement, to see if we can overcome these obstacles.