What is this hub? Who, exactly, is receiving the money? And why is Emera investing so heavily?

In the C-H Buisness section today (July 9, 2016) Rachel Brighton raises lots of questions about the just announced forestry innovation hub, noting that “Emera, which indirectly owns the province’s two major biomass plants, seems attracted to the commercial prospects for diverting low grade wood to higher value products at a time when there is less demand for burning biomass to produce electricity.” She also profiles some of the other investors and comments that “now that the big biomass plants are producing less power from wood [re change in requirement to operate Point Tupper 24/7], government is obviously keen to generate new markets for low grade wood.” Read Rachel Brighton

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