Reply #13: Shorebound [View All]

Pie in the sky???

Commercial coal-gasification with carbon sequestration (heavily subsidized thanks to the GOP) is pie-in-the-sky. Seven coal-gasification projects have been canceled in the US - Wiscasset makes 8.

Range Fuel is currently building a cellulosic ethanol plant in Georgia...

http://www.rangefuels.com/our-first-plant

and DOE is funding 6 biorefineries in the US - but none in Maine...

http://www.energy.gov/news/4827.htm

Why there and not here???

The attitude that "it can't/won't happen in Maine" is all too common.

Why should we hop up on our hind legs and dance around like trained poodles every time a Plum Creek or Twin Rivers Energy dangles a (nasty) treat in front of our snout - or dismiss new opportunities because it doesn't fit into the "conventional" worldview???

Canada, Wisconsin, New York, Mississippi and Georgia have active wood biorefinery programs - as does U Maine - and you *will* see at least one biorefinery built in Maine in the next 3 years - count on it.