Apr 26, 2011. /Lesprom Network/. The Whitesand First Nation, located north of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, has accepted a wood supply offer from the province of Ontario. The wood supply offer is for 149,000 cubic metres per year of merchantable and unmerchantable white birch, poplar, spruce, pine and fir, as ForestTalk reported. The Whitesand First Nation plans to built a new forest products facility that will create up to 42 new jobs. The new wood supply will be used to build a sawmill, a three-megawatt co-generation facility and a plant to manufacture clean-burning wood pellets for energy production. The facility is expected to be completed in March 2013. “Today’s wood supply announcement marks the beginning of a new forest economy for Whitesand First Nation and Ontario, which will see our community produce green energy from the forest, removing our dependency on costly and dirty diesel generation. Whitesand will own and operate these facilities that will maximize community and regional benefits from our local forest. I would like to thank the government for supporting this positive change, ” said Allan Gustafson, the current chief Whitesand First Nation.