. . . you should know that the black bag Okanagans are *old*. They've been gone a couple years, that company is now Northern Warmth. . . .
I'm confused, because we just bought some from our stove dealer, and they are from a current shipment. I tried to do some research on the Interwebz, but the results are inconclusive.
As far as I can tell, the Okanagan Pellet Company was formerly owned by Viridis Energy and is now owned by American Biomass Distribution, LLC. From what I can tell, the pellet mill is or was in British Columbia, but the bags I have all say "made in U.S.A." I can, however, find no pellet mill on the pellet-makers' association Web site that says anything about Okanagan or American Biomass.
My stove dealer told me that the Okanagan Douglas fir pellets come from Oregon. The Web site,
www.okanaganpellets.com, says that American Biomass LLC, or at least its Okanagan Pellet Company division, is located in Bedford, New Hampshire. That Web site also says that Okanagan is wholly owned by American Biomass, which acquired the operation from Viridis, and that Northern Warmth has nothing to do with Okanagan.
The American Biomass Web site,
www.americanbiomass.com, mentions "a wide selection of brands," but the only pellet brands mentioned on that site are Cleanfire and Granules LG. There is no street address or contact name, but Bloomberg gives their address as Goffstown, New Hampshire.
Northern Warmth does sell Dougls fir pellets, and their Web site gives a contact address in Upton, Massachusetts.
So
somebody is still making pellets under the Okanagan name, but it seems pretty clear it's
not Northern Warmth.
If anyone has information more accurate than this, I'd love to be brought up to date.