This strategy is great to…

This strategy is great to see and well put together. The focus on community energy, indigenous participation and capacity-building is fantastic. The idea for a bioheat strategy and to look at biomass to reduce diesel dependence in the North is are also great - I would suggest a strong focus on the build-out of district heating infrastructure within both of these initiatives. While the infrastructure investment is significant, it enables larger scale use of biomass and allows for integration of other heat sources, or an easy switch to a different fuel as things change in the future (see video linked). There is a lot of federal money being invested in infrastructure, and an infrastructure assessment happening, the more that can be done to get attention on district energy infrastructure, the better! District energy is also necessary for large scale deployment of bioenergy at the community level - biomass CHP is much more efficient when heat is used in a district energy system.

Also, how might the strategy help new companies, or communities, to access more biomass and capital funding?