MILLINOCKET — Maine’s “biggest small town” is slated to become a big provider of renewable energy.
National biofuels company Castlerock Biofuels and the Ensyn Corporation recently selected Millinocket’s former Great Northern Paper Mill as the site of a future facility that will convert logging residue into millions of gallons of a renewable heating oil alternative called bio-oil.
“We have an incredible history of working in forest products, and this is an opportunity to bring that industry back to life here in the Katahdin region — in Millinocket — in a more modern and progressively adaptive way,” said Millinocket Town Manager Peter Jamieson.
Jamieson says the town is an ideal location for a project like this.
“We have direct access to not only an extensive wood supply for raw materials but also Brookfield Power,” he said.
Jamieson also said he expects the project to benefit the town financially.
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