Misleading claims about Canada’s wood pellet industry have surfaced again in international media—repeating long-debunked myths about using “whole trees” or “old-growth forests,” including attention-grabbing claims about “250-year-old trees.” These portrayals ignore the broader context of Canadian forest management and misrepresent how Canada’s pellet industry works within an integrated forest sector. The reality is that over 90 percent of Canada’s forests are publicly owned, meaning that governments—not companies—set harvest levels, regeneration requirements, and biodiversity protections, including those related to old-growth forests. This public governance framework has created one of the world’s most comprehensive systems of forest regulation. A 2020 peer-reviewed study from the University of British Columbia found that Canada has some of the most stringent forest management laws and policies globally, spanning national, provincial and local levels. …Canada’s wood pellet producers are proud participants in a forest sector recognized worldwide for sustainable management.