Why would New Brunswick want to bring in oil from Venezuela when we have 10 million tonnes of wood rotting in the forest

“Why would New Brunswick want to bring in oil from Venezuela when we have 10 million tonnes of wood rotting in the forest every year? The equivalent of 15 million barrels of oil,” asks Jenkins. This would provide sawmills in the Atlantic provinces with means of additional revenue, enabling them to stay alive while export markets are dead and dying. Instead of feeding all leftover product and residue to the province’s pulp and paper mills for inadequate returns, this material could be sent directly to local pellet plants for better returns. Jenkins wants all industries associated with wood to see the rise in energy cost as an opportunity, not a threat. It is a matter of realizing the true potential of one of the province’s greatest renewable resources and putting an end to the wasting of it—and the wasting of money.