Local biomass support grows - The Sarnia Observer - Ontario, CA

Two prominent Ontario cabinet ministers have come out in favour of converting the Courtright facility -- and the province's other coal-fired plants -- to biomass fuel.

"We have an opportunity to preserve the capital asset and use it for something else that's tremendously sound from an environmental standpoint," Energy and Infrastructure Minister George Smitherman said Friday.

Burning biomass contributes 70% of brown cloud soot, says research - Economy and Politics - livemint.com

In Friday’s issue of Science magazine, researchers from India, Sweden and the Maldives report that biomass combustion contributes 70% of the soot in the brown cloud as against some previous studies that claimed fossil fuels accounted for 50-90% of it.