BANGOR DAILY NEWS • April 26, 2022
East Millinocket could welcome a new tenant at its former paper mill site if a Canadian renewable energy company receives state approval to open a facility that would convert wood chips into heating fuel. Ensyn Fuels Inc. is negotiating a lease with the town of East Millinocket to open a biorefinery at the site of the former Great Northern Paper Co. mill. It would be the second business at the mill site to use a process that heats wood chips to manufacture another product. The company would use 165,000 tons of wood chips per year to produce about 20 million gallons of biocrude. Nearby at the site of the former Lincoln Paper and Tissue mill, another company is also proposing a biorefinery that would use waste wood to produce a heating oil substitute.