Sludge Watch ==> Stora Enso Paper sets CO2 emission reductions 20%

[Maureen Reilly]

Sludgewatch Admin:

Here we see a contrast between the poor practices in Southern Ontario and 
world leading paper industry in Europe.

Environmentalists and outraged rural communities have been fighting dreary 
battles with industry and  the Province of Ontario  regulators against 
dioxin contaminated black liquor (spent pulping liquor) sprayed on rural 
roads as a 'dust suppressant' (Dombind) and against mountains of deinking 
paper sludge heaped on farmfields as Nitro-Sorb or Sound-Sorb.

These materials leach into groundwater and run contaminants into streams. 
The paper sludge ink content contains levels of total petroleum hydrocarbons 
a dozen times over the contaminated site cleanup guidelines.  The 
communities around these berms  fear the berms gas off methyl ethyl ketone, 
contain the neurotoxic acrylamide monomer from the sludge thickeners, and 
release methane and other gases off into the atmosphere as they decompose.

The sludge also contains very high levels of intestinal tract bacteria 
including Ecoli levels of 500,000 CFU / gram.  There are concerns about the 
movement of bacteria into groundwater and surface water.  Sewage sludge was 
used to initiate the digesters at Atlantic Packaging.

At Stora Enso these same residuals...sludge and spent pulping liquor... are 
powering the plant, offsetting coal energy, sparing farm lands and landfills 
from these industrial wastes,  and protecting the environment by stopping 
the release of greenhouse gases like methane from the sludge.

Kruger Paper in Quebec is on the same track as Stora Enso.

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Stora Enso sets target for its CO2 emission reductions

03/19/2008....

The Finnish-Swedish forest industry giant Stora Enso has set a concrete goal 
for its carbon dioxide (CO2) emission reductions. The emissions should be 
cut by a fifth from 2006 levels by 2020.

Helsinki (16.03.2008 – Juhani Artto) The Finnish-Swedish forest industry 
giant Stora Enso has set a concrete goal for its carbon dioxide (CO2) 
emission reductions. The emissions should be cut by a fifth from 2006 levels 
by 2020.

The comparable figures are expressed in CO2 emissions per saleable pulp, 
paper and board tons. The figures cover both the emissions of Stora Enso’s 
own operations and the emissions caused by the purchased electricity and 
heat consumed in Stora Enso’s operations. The emissions of the company’s own 
operations consist mainly of on-site energy generation and processes, power 
boilers, lime kilns, paper drying, vehicles, engines and harvesting 
equipment.

In 2007, Stora Enso’s direct and indirect CO2 emissions (carbon foot print) 
made a total of 14,21 million tonnes. In December 2007 the company sold its 
North American operations which will significantly reduce the total CO2 
emissions in 2008.

Primarily, Stora Enso plans to achieve the reductions “through improvements 
in energy efficiency and productivity, as well as the increased use of 
carbon-neutral biomass and low-carbon fossil fuels”, the company states in 
its annual report 2007.
The share of bioenergy in Stora Enso’s internal energy production was 66 per 
cent in 2007. The major sources of bioenergy for Stora Enso are black 
liquor, bark, logging residues and internal residuals including de-inking 
sludge and bio-sludge. “We are continuously looking for opportunities to 
increase the share of biomass in our fuel mix”, the company explains.


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