Oregon Biochar produces a high-quality, high-carbon and high surface area biochar (Rogue Biochar) from local forestry biomass available in the NorthWest USA. Our production facility, which has been operational for over 30 years, is a carbon-neutral biomass plant located in Jackson County, Oregon. Our feedstocks include low-value biomasses recovered from farms and orchards, woody biomass and burnt material from forest fires as well as secondary and tertiary wood residues from the region. Our biochar has an 83% fixed carbon content and a 0.08 H/C and 0.05 O/C molar ratios as well as a high surface area allowing it to compete and displace fossil and unsustainably produced activated carbons in key application such as water filtration. About 80% of our production is sold in agriculture, where its soil water and nutrient retention, structure and microbial benefits provide farmers with an added-value solution to diverse issues, such as low-water availability, drought, nutrient run-off, poor soil and compaction. About 15% of our production is used in stormwater management applications, preventing nutrient and pollutant run offs to water bodies, while the rest is applied in industrial water filtration for AC replacement. Oregon Biochar’s goal is to drawdown carbon, mitigate climate change, decrease water pollution and regenerate severely degraded lands. But we can’t do it alone. Part of the solution, our solution, to these complex goals is biochar. Rogue Biochar is used in agricultural usages where it betters soil health and farming practices, including water saving and fertilizer usage reduction. It is also used as a replacement for fossil products in the carbon market, mostly in filtration of contaminants. Our project makes use of the revenues from carbon removals by subsidizing the price of biochar fore an end-user, thereby increasing the amount of carbon sequestration that is done. Additionally, price reduction for biochar entails farmers to access this product, something that was not possible on a large scale previously. More than 80% of the revenues generated from the sale of carbon removals go directly to us, the rest goes to project development and certification costs. These revenues are almost entirely transferred to subsidizing the price of biochar for buyers. For more information (such as additional data on the project) please get in touch with us directly at Melissa.leung@gecaenviro.com.

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