MRRA attendees hear the lowdown on wood.Wood fuel derived from demolition scrap should continue to find a home in New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. if the Boralex subsidiary of Cascades, Kingsey Falls, Quebec Kingsey Falls, Quebec is an town in Centre-du-Québec, Quebec, Canada. It is west of Route 116. Sources
Centre-du-Québec (17) Arthabaska | Bécancour | Drummond | L'Érable | Nicolet-Yamaska Eric Dumont of Boralex told attendees of the Maine Recycling & Solid Waste Conference, held in early April in Rockport, that its biomass plants that are approved to burn clean demolition wood may consume up to 450,000 tons per year of the product. Boralex owns eight biomass plants, five of which are in Maine, one in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of state and two in Quebec. Three of the Maine plants are currently operational, although they are not all approved to burn demolition wood, relying instead on clean, forested wood chips. "I don't believe we could afford to run all three of these plants without the C&D wood," Dumont told attendees, some of whom ship their recycled wood to Boralex. Dumont announced that the company is building a rail spur at its Livermore Falls, Maine, location, a power generating plant that consumes some 350,000 tons per year of wood. "This is very important to us, as we have to go farther and farther away from the plant to get the material we need," says Dumont. Dumont also stressed to attendees that high quality, clean shipments will be necessary for Boralex to maintain and grow its ability to consume processed demolition wood. State agencies have asked the company to maintain "zero tolerance The policy of applying laws or penalties to even minor infringements of a code in order to reinforce its overall importance and enhance deterrence. Since the 1980s the phrase zero tolerance has signified a philosophy toward illegal conduct that favors strict imposition of " for treated wood treated wood Toxicology Wood impregnated with preservatives–eg, chromium-copper-arsenate, creosote, inorganic arsenicals, pentachlorophenol, to ↑ its useful life, thwarting insects, fungi, etc; chronic exposure to the fumes of burning wood or skin in particular, he noted. Peter Russell of wood recycling company P.R. Russell Inc., in Richmond Maine, described his company's ability to make boiler fuel, certified playground chips, organic compost, mulches and fertilizer. The company serves as a contract grinder Grinder A slang term for a person who works in the investment industry and makes small amounts of money at a time on small investments, over and over again. Notes: to companies and municipalities to produce many of its products. The 11th Annual Maine Recycling & Solid Waste Conference was organized and hosted by the Maine Resource Recovery Association, based in Bangor, Maine. |
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