Bruce Duggan Director BullerCentre.com

A Brokerage? examples  Manitoba Buy & Sell  kijiji  eBay  Manitoba Hay Registry  Pellet Zone  Stick Man

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A Brokerage Creates a Market  links all participants together reduces search cost & effort  finding customers  finding suppliers  finding shippers, storers, equipment, expertise, advice, examples... reduces transaction costs  standardizes contracts & other arrangements

A Brokerage Creates a Market  a brokerage is essential to the development of a biomass industry

So Far  researched other brokerages  created offline prototype  gathered info on potential participants  put it online BiomassBrokerage.com

Next Steps  meet each potential producer  get fuller inventory of potential consumers businesses capable of  system design, manufacture, installation & service  storage  secure start-up funding

Storage? Carey, MB

Bruce Duggan Director BullerCentre.com

Bruce Duggan Director BullerCentre.com

Bruce Duggan Director BullerCentre.com bonus slide simplified schematic of potential effects of cattail harvesting, and their integration into a larger system of processes and effects

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