In Maine, the University of Maine and Red Shield Environmental say that a $30 million grant from the US Department of Energy puts the financing in place to have their woodchip-based ethanol plant in operation in 2010. The plant will be sited at the old Red Shield pulp mill, and local and state officials said that the new plant has the potential to revive the state’s pulp and paper industry.
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