I think there are a couple of issues to talk about with respect to biomass.
The first problem that we face collectively from that perspective is an economic problem. It's about how to get that timber out of the woods, and how you make that biomass economic, how you make it pay for itself to bring it out.
At the moment, and British Columbia is not unique in this regard, a sawlog business pays to bring wood out. It is the highest value you can generate. We have two sets of residuals. We have residuals that are created at the mill and we have residuals that are piled in the bush.
In British Columbia we are doing a lot of thinking about how we can make those bush residuals more economic. I'll tell you a very important consideration that's under way here in British Columbia as we are watching our cut come down quite dramatically is the amount of residuals that sawmills are creating is necessarily going to decrease. At the moment we use the sawmill residual biomass for everything from the pulp and paper industry. We generate pellets and we generate electricity with it to power our kilns, our mills, and to sell back to the grid.
I think there is growing concern in British Columbia as the sawmill side has to consolidate and shrink as a result of the timber supply. The worry is that a lot of that residual fibre, that residual biomass, is going to be scarcer, particularly from the milling side. Does that change the economics as our folks need to go back to the bush and be able to pull out some of the roadside debris that we've left?
I think some of the programs that the federal government has in place like IFIT, for example, that allow us to try to understand and bring together near commercial-ready technologies to be able to find some higher value economic uses for them are very important programs that can really help this industry in the long term.