WPAC’s 2025 Conference Biomass for a Low-Carbon Future was held September 22-23 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. See below for presentations from the event.
Opening Remarks
WPAC Year in Review 2024-25, Vaughan Bassett, WPAC President and Senior Vice President, Biomass Sales and Logistics, Drax Group
Advancing Safety Together, Julie Griffiths, Chair, WPAC Safety Committee and Quality, Sustainability & Environmental Program Coordinator, Shaw Renewables
Panel Session: Inside the Smoulder—How to Detect, Prevent, and Survive Self-Heating in Biomass Storage
Introductory Remarks, William Strauss, President, FutureMetrics
Bioheat Opportunities for Canada
Atlantic Canada, Jonathan Levesque, General Manager, Biomass Solution Biomasse
Northern Canada, Mark Heyck, Executive Director, Arctic Energy Alliance
Canada, Jean Blair, Director, Planning and Outreach, TorchLight Bioresources
Sweden, Gustav Melin, Chaiman, World Thermal Services
Upper Austria, Christiane Egger, Deputy Manager, OÖ Energiesparverband
Keynote
Local Energy: The Foundation for Economic Success and Export Growth, Jamie Stephen, Managing Director, TorchLight Bioresources
One on One: Powering the Net-Negative Transition—BECCS in Action
Ørsted’s Carbon Capture and Storage Business, Søren Alsing, Director Bioenergy, Head of Fuel, Ørsted
Panel Session: Decarbonizing Industry
Taaleri Biocoal Canada Development Ltd, Juha Hyvärinen, Managing Director
NB Power, Brad Coady, Vice President, Business Development & Strategic Partnerships
Market and Policy Update: Navigating Regulatory Change
FutureMetrics, William Strauss, President
Hawkins Wright, Fiona Matthews, Bioenergy Director
Argus Biomass, Marta Imarisio, Senior Reporter
Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Pierre-Jonathan Teasdale, Director of Trade and International Affairs Division
Fuelling the Future: Decarbonizing Transportation with Bioenergy Innovations
NYK Bulkship (Atlantic) NV, Cate Moran, Senior Chartering Manager
CN, François Bélanger, Sr. Director Sustainability
Canadian Council for Sustainable Aviation Fuels (C-SAF), Juliana Lisi, Sustainability and SAF Manager
Queen’s University, Warren Mabee, Director, Queen’s Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy