Grahame Go

ENDERBY – You might know Enderby for its proximity to the scenic Shuswap River or popular Mabel Lake, but the small North Okanagan community is also home to a state of the art clean energy heating system. It’s called a biomass boiler and it uses scrap wood chips to heat water, which is then circulated through underground pipes to 12 businesses in the city’s downtown. The fossil fuel alternative is commonly found in Europe but is fairly unique in this part of the world. “Places like Germany, Austria, and Switzerland have not just hundreds, but thousands of them,” Burkhard Fink says. …“The wood we are burning is equivalent to the wood rotting naturally in the bush,” Go says. Enderby mayor Greg McCune says he’s proud the city is leading the way and setting an example for how communities can use alternative energies.