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Article: Red Shield soot complaint unfounded
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- February 8, 2008
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OLD TOWN - A complaint last week of soot from the stacks at the
Red Shield Environmental LLC facility in Old Town falling on
residences in Bradley couldn't be confirmed by the Maine Department
of Environmental Protection.
"Some residents called in the middle of last week about another
sooting incident over in Bradley," DEP regional manager Ed Logue
said Monday. "We did investigate and really couldn't substantiate
it."
There was an incident last spring where soot from Red Shield's
stacks fell on Bradley, which is across the river from Old Town, but
there was no danger, and the mill poses no threat to the public,
Logue said.
At this time, Red Shield is continuing to burn green wood chips ...