We need to develop this industry. We need to have a critical mass of projects in order to be able to start. In Quebec, the Fédération québécoise des coopératives forestières has an agreement with the Fonds d'action québécois pour le développement durable and the Government of Quebec. We received $20 million in loans to finance the facilities and infrastructure to be able to use the pellets and chips.
In terms of the pellets, you know that using energy slightly reduces their effectiveness. A forestry cooperative supplies biomass to all the major industrial or institutional projects, such as the Amqui hospital.
As for the projects, as soon as we have the processing centres set up in every region, the clients will become interested and gradually, this will be very appealing. Heat things directly also has an impact on local development. We therefore have to invest to develop the domestic market. I think the exporting pellets is a last resort. We are exporting carbon credits abroad. Moving away from the source leads to a considerable loss of ecological benefits.