BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 13, 2021
A Pennsylvania company that has been negotiating to purchase the shuttered waste processing plant in Hampden no longer has exclusive rights to buy the plant because it hasn’t shown proof that it has the financing to make the purchase. While Delta Thermo Energy can still purchase the Coastal Resources of Maine plant that has been closed since May 2020, the bondholders who have the authority to sell the operation and the group that represents the more than 100 Maine towns that send their waste there are now looking for other potential suitors.