Maine senator Susan Collins meets with Great Northern Paper to discuss company's plan to produce biocoal [From the web]

EAST MILLINOCKET, ME, Jan. 20, 2012 (Bangor Daily News) - U.S. Sen. Susan Collins emerged from a closed-door meeting with owners of the new Great Northern Paper Co. LLC mill confident that company plans to produce biocoal would result in big dividends for the Katahdin region, she said Thursday.

Collins, R-Maine, reviewed the mill's papermaking operations, plans to manufacture torrefied wood at the Millinocket mill starting in November, and both mills' need for a natural gas line proposed by Gov. Paul LePage.

She promised to help the company realize its plans and diversify its products by helping it secure federal funding for the pipeline and its biocoal production.

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