It's so old that it takes something like 2 hours of maintenance for every hour of flight time.
I suspect that Coulson's rates are way higher than Conair's is why BC doesn't use them and instead they go to California and Australia who will pay the bill.
It's been/is being heavily subsidized already. First it was about 15-20 years ago through BC Hydro contracts that bought power at lucrative rates from mills that built cogen facilities. Now it is through FESBC that provides funding for these cogen owners to top up the rates they can pay forest...
usually not economically feasible to log pure pellet/biomass stands. Need some sawlog in there to absorb the costs of logging, hauling and stumpage. The cogen guys have started using portable grinders to go out to the bush and grind the waste piles and ship back to town in chip trucks but it's a...