The Gorham Papermill up until last week used to burn #6 fuel oil. They have now switched to natural gas. The is a big plus for the local environment downstream of the stack, as #6 fuel oil is a relatively dirty fuel to burn having a lot of heavy metallic residuals. This is a big cost savings to the facility, reportedly 1 million per month which improves its competitiveness. It also gets a lot of tanker trucks off the road year round. They do have capabilities to switch back to oil in an natural gas curtailment, but if it happens, it would only be for a short time due to the substantial savings with natural gas.
A future project currently under construction will get rid of the North Countries "eternal flame" as soon as the pipe is fully run. http://alpha.smemaine.com/avrrdd/flarecam/ (only worth looking at this link after dark)
The landfill gas will be routed to the papermill to displace natural gas.
The local paper also announced that they are still pursuing a new tissue machine.
A future project currently under construction will get rid of the North Countries "eternal flame" as soon as the pipe is fully run. http://alpha.smemaine.com/avrrdd/flarecam/ (only worth looking at this link after dark)
The landfill gas will be routed to the papermill to displace natural gas.
The local paper also announced that they are still pursuing a new tissue machine.