BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 30, 2025
The Brunswick Town Council unanimously voted Monday night to inform a natural gas company that it does not support the expansion of a biosolids digester in the town. In 2023, a firm called Viridi Energy bought an anaerobic digester in Brunswick Landing, which creates energy out of organic waste, such as the solid material that’s removed from sewage at wastewater treatment plants. Now, Viridi is attempting to scale up its production of electricity and natural gas at the biodigester — it plans to take 85,000 tons of biosolids a year, reducing it to less than 10,000 tons of leftover sludge that would be sent to Juniper Ridge Landfill in Old Town. Brunswick residents say they reject the idea of odor, increased truck traffic and potential increased PFAS contaminants coming into the growing former U.S. Naval Air Station.