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- ReEnergy to restart Ashland biomass plant idled since 2011 (8/4/14)
PORTLAND — The New York-based owner of four biomass plants in Maine plans to restart its Ashland operation by the end of the year, with a ramp-up that will include hiring 25 people, buying mill and forest byproducts and assessing and re-tuning equipment.
- Wood pellet boiler industry pushes changes for new heating systems (4/25/14)
PORTLAND, Maine — In a nondescript warehouse on Presumpscot Street, around a dozen high-tech wood pellet boilers arrived this week from Denmark aboard a ship from Iceland, bound for installation in Maine.
- Vassalboro’s Duratherm has found green by going ‘green’ (4/22/14)
A Vassalboro manufacturing company has gone “green” by banishing oil, opening the windows at night and feeding its workers fresh organic beef from a small herd of cattle raised behind the factory, the company president told a group of business leaders on Earth Day
- Maine schools, other facilities slash heating bills with stimulus project (4/20/14)
Years after federal stimulus dollars funded a Maine Forest Service project to heat with local wood products, schools and other facilities report they have slashed energy bills in half while supporting jobs in the state’s struggling timber industry.
- Maine’s paper industry woos students with scholarships, jobs (4/11/14)
The annual Paper Days event stresses that most mills are still vibrant and offer internships and good careers.
- Scarborough wood fiber cloth producer wants $900,000 facility in Dover-Foxcroft (4/29/14)
DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — A Scarborough firm wants to locate a facility that produces wood fiber-based cleaning cloth at a Route 7 industrial park, but it needs a $450,000 state grant to make it happen, officials said Tuesday.
- Parties try new strategies in battle over idled Maine paper mill (4/24/14)
Cate Street Capital and Brookfield Renewable turn to new public relations approaches to express their positions on the Great Northern Paper mill in Millinocket.
- Burlington (again) eyes a harvest of heat from McNeil (4/21/14)
This spring, some of Burlington's most forward-looking energy experts are asking us, again, to consider the humble path of plumbing.
- Public-private partnership sees a big future for N.H. wood (4/17/14)
When it comes to heating your New Hampshire home or business, a new industry group wants you to forget natural gas and other fossil fuels and switch to a renewable heating source growing abundantly right here in New Hampshire: wood.
- LePage plan to fund heating program with timber harvest fails to pass legislative panel (3/26/14)
AUGUSTA, Maine — A plan by Gov. Paul LePage to fund residential heating cost reduction programs by increasing the amount of wood cut and sold from state land has failed to clear the first hurdle of the legislative process.