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Article: Recipes for new fuels reviving Maine's mills ; Vast forests again pose rich resource
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 18, 2008
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CORINTH, Maine - Over a lifetime working in the forest products
industry, Randy Irish watched mills fail and friends lose jobs. It
finally happened to him, after 32 years, when Georgia Pacific shut
its paper mill near this northern Maine town.
But two years later, Irish has a new future at a new mill. The
product this time: energy.
Irish, 54, is plant manager for Corinth Wood Pellets LLC, which
turns sawdust into wood pellets for heating stoves and is one of
several energy start-ups that Maine officials hope can boost a
struggling economy that has long depended on forests, fishing, and
other natural resources. As employment in traditional industries,
such as papermaking, has declined over ...
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