ONTARIO — Toronto’s CHAR Technologies and joint venture partner Lake Nipigon Forest Management Inc. (LNFMI) have secured a provincial forest resource processing facility licence for a proposed renewable energy facility. CHAR and LNFMI are the co-developers in a proposed wood waste-to-renewable energy facility, near Hurkett, Ontario. CHAR is an innovative clean technology specializing in the production of renewable natural gas and a bio-coal (biochar) product from residual wood waste. LNFMI is the Sustainable Forest License holder to the Lake Nipigon Forest. CHAR’s partnership with LNFMI secures the woody feedstock supply. CHAR calls receipt of the licence a “historic achievement”. It clears the path to greenlight construction for a “biohub” forestry processing operation, expected to commence sometime in 2026. Initial civil works at a greenfield site have been completed. …“LNFMI and CHAR are putting forest biomass to work and creating new opportunities in forestry,” said Kevin Holland, associate minister of forestry.