A presentation

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Building Partnershipsfor Eco-Industrial
Development

• A presentation
• By Sandra S. Lawn, Project Leader
• OEWC Eco-Industrial Park

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Outline of Presentation

• 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

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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 1980s
  to 1992 incl. DIY markets
• Project on hold until 2004 now taking off!!!

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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)

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The Eastern Ontario Model Forest 1992-2007 - 15
years of solid partnership building
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The EOMF - a model of working partnerships
private and public
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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

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• Map showing forest availability, 300km radius

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• 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

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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
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Cellulose - what a molecule!!

• Linear homopolymer composed of several thousand
  monomer units (ß-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

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Greenhouses
Aquaculture
Bio- energy
Chemicals
BioRefinery
Product promotion
waste
Education
Research
CHP Ki ln
Conferences
BioPlastics
Research
Eco-tourism
Wood Industry
Research
FEEDSTOCKS
Building Materials
Recycling
AutoParts
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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 Canadas 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

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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
Hwy 17 Corridor
Hwy 11 Corridor
Prescott
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Co-operation is the way to survivepartners 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
• Queens and Guelph Universities and hopefully
  McGill University

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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,
• multi-disciplinary
• Local Leadership
• Township of Edwardsburgh/Cardinal Wood Centre
  Committee
• Steering Committee guiding project
• Region-wide value chain

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U.S.
Port
Europe
Bridge
Park
Railway
401
416
Airport
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Unsurpassed transportation and land availability
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Hwy 416to Ottawa
To Montreal gt
Johnstown
Hwy 401
lt To Toronto
Ogdensburg Intl Bridgeto USA
Edwardsburgh/CardinalIndustrial Park and Ethanol
plant under construction
Ontario East Wood Centre Eco-Industrial Park
Port of Prescott
County Rd 2to Prescott
Birds Eye View
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Building the Vision for an eco-industrial cluster
based on wood fibre
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Preliminary Concepts for RDD LEED standards
recommended (Leadership in Environmental and
Energy Design)
Totten Sims Hubicki Associates
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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)

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Valuable extractives, pharmaceutical,
nutriceuticals, energy and
SUNY, Faculty of Environment and Forestry
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Benefits to university partners

• 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

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The challenges

• 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

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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

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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