An Excellent Update From Tolko
Posted by Rick Taylor
on Feb 21, 2014
The guest speaker at our Feb. 20th lunch meeting was Daryl Warnick from Tolko Industries. He gave us a very interesting explanation of the Cogeneration System used by the Tolko plant in Armstrong. Cogeneration refers to the production of both steam and electricity, and their system uses about 42 semi-truck loads of hog fuel daily to operate. This process supplies the electricity needed to run the plant, the steam needed to dry the wood products and the surplus electricity created goes to B.C. Hydro. We were surprised to learn that the amount of electricity fed back to Hydro would supply about 50,000 users. This was a good investment for them as the move to this system has proven to be more profitable and efficient than previous operation methods. It was also interesting to learn that the demand for people trained in these systems is extremely high and this has created a manpower shortage locally due to the number that have moved to the 'oil patch' for the higher wages. ****************************************************
Also at this meeting, Dustin Stadnyk presented Daryl O'Brian and Art Clark with Paul Harris Fellow Awards. Dustin also said that Daryl's was a +6 and Art's a +3. I asked him to clarify this and he told me that when you donate $1,000 you receive a Paul Harris Fellow award, and if you donate an additional $1,000 you get a Paul Harris Fellow +1 award, and so on. So, during Art's tenure as a member he has donated $4,000 and Daryl is at $7,000. Now we all know.
(I had taken photos of these presentations, however they were not useable - sorry - new camera (works good), old photographer (needs practice with new camera)