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Got most of my .0005's filled
One word MADOFF. None of the investors want to loose any $$$$
Thank you purplemountain, I forgot about the % and I guess i had a brain FART
Thanks again
Stupid question but I need help. What formula in Excel do you use to calculate the % owned of LLEG. example you own 45 million shares and you want to figure out the % of the company you own. . . Any help would be greatfull
lilpuppy, You are talking about a take over of LLEG. YES you are correct we could have a take over when we start making some $$$. This is WAY TOO premature for that type of talk on this Board at this time. This BOARD tries to deal with FACTS.
Here is the article about Mr Bass but from a German paper. We are international
http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/former-nh-congressman-bass-to-join-laidlaw-s-board--/de/Unternehmensnachrichten/20111836
Why should we even speculate about a take over. What do we have that can be taken over? We do not have anything up and running. Cant pump and dump this stock on that kind of useless rummer . . at this time. give it a few years. Good try though
Louisiana Paper Plant Adapts For Biomass
A biomass boiler at a Louisiana paper manufacturing facility was recently renovated. The project included the complete replacement of the fuel receiving, storage and retrieval systems for a wood-fired boiler.
The four-year project began by performing a study of the existing fuel delivery system at the plant. Material handling specialists analyzed the capability of the existing system, identified the bottlenecks and recommended solutions to increase the ability to deliver more fuel to the boiler while providing better storage and material retrieval options.
While there were some gains to be had by modification of the existing system, the long-term solution to meeting the client’s desired feed rate to the boiler was a complete replacement of the fuel delivery system. This study formed the basis of a funding grade scope and estimate, which culminated in the client obtaining the necessary funding to proceed with the project.
In addition to the project’s detailed engineering, Ruston, La.-based Hunt, Guillot & Associates, through its on-site services division, also provided construction management and start-up expertise to the client’s project management team.
The Project’s Scope
Hunt, Guillot & Associates was selected to perform the detailed engineering for the new fuel handling and delivery system. As the facility was an existing operation, the site selected for the new system was remote from the boiler, thus necessitating long conveyor lengths to deliver material to the boiler. The design was for the system to be able to process and store 150 tons per hour of incoming wood material, in addition to handling and storing the plant-generated material on a 2 million-cubic-foot storage pile. The storage pile was sized to provide the plant with approximately 10 days of onsite storage, available to be processed and ready for retrieval for the boiler.
The plant’s owners stipulated the ability to be able to process a wide variety of incoming quality of materials. The facility was already receiving material from in-woods grinding operations, bark from offsite wood yards, saw mill waste and wood chips. The facility owners believe that as biomass fuel use increases, the ability to receive rougher or less-processed material will allow it to obtain fuel at competitive prices. Engineers successfully designed the receiving system to be able to handle the receipt of materials ranging from finely ground sawdust to blocks 108 inches long. The chains in the oversized truck dump hopper were equipped with a variable speed drive that allowed the unloading time to be decreased when better quality material was received.
Engineers also specified wide conveyor belts with skirted side boards to minimize spillage. Conveyor head boxes were sized to allow the extra length materials the ability to transition between the conveyors. A scalping screen was installed ahead of the grinder. However, the grinder was sized to process the full 150 tons per hour of material. Metal detection and removal capability was designed into the system.
The major components of the system included a new truck dumper, screen and grinder, a circular stacker reclaimer and all of the interconnecting conveyors to supply the biomass to a new fuel bin in the boiler building. The reclaim system was designed to retrieve, weigh and deliver 80 tons per hour of fuel to the boiler, utilizing an over-pile chain reclaimer, and conventional idler belt and air-supported belt technology. The bark reclaim conveyor, at 750 feet long, also provided an emergency feed hopper to allow the plant to continue to feed fuel to the boiler. It also provided a magnet for secondary tramp metal removal and the scale to provide the weight of the material supplied to the boiler.
The 1,250-foot long air-supported belt is one of the longest continuous spans in the country. It was routed through the middle of the operational pulp and paper mill. Air-supported belt technology utilizes a cushion of air to support the belt and the conveyed material on the carry side of the belt. It also uses a cushion of air on the return side of the belt, resulting in a conveyor with only five rollers for its entire length.
The cable tower technology that is utilized to support the air-supported belt allows for a maximum of 250 feet between towers. This allowed the entire 1,250-foot length of the conveyor to be installed with only six intermediate supports between the heat and tail. Use of this technology resulted in substantial savings to the plant in reduced amounts of support steel and installation labor.
Hunt, Guillot & Associates’ engineering and purchasing groups issued equipment specifications, proposed bidders lists and inquired the equipment for the plant, supplying bid tabulations and recommending vendors. The project’s foundation design included an elevated concrete structure to support the 800 horsepower grinder, the foundation and access ramp for the 75-foot truck dump platform, and the foundation design for the 2 million-cubic-foot stacker reclaimer that was supported on 70-foot deep auger cast piles.
Plant power was received at 13,800 volts at a new electrical control room and distributed to end users. Programmers supplied the necessary programmable logic controllers (PLC) programming to operate the systems, interfaced with other PLC-based systems, designed the graphics for the operator control station and interfaced with the plant’s existing distributed control network.
Construction
Expertise in construction management was provided to the project management team at the beginning of the construction phase of the project. The primary effort was to provide for coordination of the multiple contractors and sub-contractors involved in the construction, thus ensuring that the project schedule would be met and result in a successful start-up.
An on-site controls engineer and programmer were also provided during the start-up sequencing to immediately resolve any control issues. The efforts resulted in the project being completed with no unplanned operational interruptions to the facility. Start-up was on schedule and done safely.
http://www.biomassmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2541&q=&page=1
I just think all biomass for NH should be talked about here good or bad. We are a Laidlaw Energy Group MB, but we are also a supporter of Biomass in its entirety as well, since it is our industry (USA/Canada/Europe)
We should not be close minded about what other companies are doing. It is good to see what is working and what is not. I agree about elimination stuff that has nothing to due with Biomass.
again this is just my opinion, I am not smart enough :o I have been on this MB for almost 2 years now, and I have to admit the posters (majority) are well informed and help us little people.
THANK YOU to all the great posters.
JMO . . but I think we should keep the Clean Power posts on this MB. We should be in touch with all of Berlin's projects Good or bad so we all can have a full picture of what is going on and not get bits and pieces. lets talk about them all here.
I find it funny how "Clean Power sought a special exception to get by with 19 parking spaces instead of the 43 required by the square footage of the plant."
How many new jobs do they expect to create if they keep reducing there parking lot. . . .LOL
Where in the world is Michael Bartoszek. I know
http://laidlawenergy.blogspot.com/2009/03/park-car-in-harvard-yardliterally.html
now you do too
The picture shows where the CEO is. This is the new project (Wink, Wink)
The NIMBY's should buy 1-million shares ($600) of LLEG and support the deal. My only advice is invest in your and your kids future.
I don't get it.
If they wanted to put a nuclear power plant on Long Island (they did Shoram, not open) and I know that i can invest a little money into the plant and when it opens i will take all my MONEY and move to a nice quiet place and spend my retirement not worrying about where to find work.
WAKE UP BERLIN you have an opportunity to make a better living for you and your family.
Plus utility company's do pay out dividends and that may someday be on the LLEG plate to help support my retirement.
I guess Michael Bartoszek finally found the story about the Forest providing heat and electricity. he should be reading here first to get the latest info on LLEG he would of had it 3 days sooner . . LOL
http://laidlawenergy.blogspot.com/2009/03/forests-can-provide-both-heat-and.html
You geek . . LOL
Forests can provide both heat and lights
Power plants, pellet makers can coexist
By CHARLES F. BASS For the Monitor
March 06, 2009 - 7:23 am
I write in response to Charlie Niebling's column, "Make heat, not light" (Monitor Opinion page, Feb. 21).
First, full disclosure: I am a board member for New England Wood Pellet in Jaffrey. I too have an interest in seeing the use of pellet fuels grow in the Northeast. I am also engaged as an adviser to the Laidlaw Energy Group which proposes to construct and operate a woodchip-fired combined heat and power station in Berlin.
I think that there is plenty of room, in fact a clear necessity, to develop both heat and light from biomass.
Niebling suggests, quite appropriately, that the biomass resource is better utilized in a combined heat and power system. I agree. The Berlin bio-power station will be just such a facility, producing more than 50 megawatts of clean, renewable, carbon-neutral electricity while providing thermal energy to the Cascade Paper Mill just down the Androscoggin River. It will also be capable of providing thermal energy to the city of Berlin, as well as industries that might be attracted to the area because of the ready availability of such an energy source. Its efficiency should be far greater that the 15-20 percent estimate Charlie uses for electricity-only generation.
Moreover, it will substantially boost the local economy, protecting existing jobs and providing new ones sooner rather than later.
I disagree, however, with his contention that small-scale thermal energy systems should be developed instead of or to the exclusion of larger-scale biomass co-generation or wind generation. Here's why:
Like it or not, by law, New Hampshire must produce 25 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2025. If we don't meet this goal, ratepayers will see their electric bills skyrocket, much more than they might if they had to sustain the operating costs (not the cost of construction as Niebling suggests) of upgrades to the electricity grid.
Right now, it is expensive and difficult to find and install small, residential-scale biomass central heating systems. I know because I have one in my own house. The boiler had to be imported from Denmark, and I had to do the installation myself. I paid more than three times what an equivalent oil-fired system would have cost. Clearly, the problem of cost is resolving itself, thanks to higher energy prices verses more stable wood pellet prices and the evolution (albeit slow) of less costly, American-made systems. But we all know that wide availability and consumer acceptance of these systems is many years away. And affordable "micro" cogeneration has yet to be developed at all. In the meantime, should we abandon "shovel ready" options for an uncertain future alternative?
Niebling worries that there won't be adequate wood supply for both large and small scale co-generation. My contention is that not only will there be ample supply, but the market should and will ultimately determine where the feedstock goes. If small scale cogeneration winds up being competitive with larger scale plants, then the market price for biomass will determine which one is more economic and efficient.
Lastly, except for sunlight, heat from wood is the oldest and most basic form of energy; it's been around since humankind discovered fire, and though simple in its technology, transportation, storage, convenience and versatility are huge limitations on potential expanded application.
Electricity, on the other hand, travels at the speed of light to wherever it is needed, and is a source of energy capable of producing heat, light and kinetic motion. As energy demand continues to evolve, we will need to tap the energy potential contained in wood for both heat and electricity. Wood is a here, abundant and an immediate source of renewable energy for both large- and small-scale cogeneration. Both have an important role to play in New Hampshire's energy future.
(Charles F. Bass of Peterborough is a former 2nd District congressman.)
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090306/OPINION/903060309
2008 Wood Pellet Production Numbers
By Ron Kotrba
Web exclusive posted March 5, 2009, at 11:53 a.m. CST
Wood Resources Quarterly recently released figures on global wood pellet production for 2008; close to 10 million tons of pellets were produced last year. Moreover, WRQ projects that this number will double over the next four to five years. While the biggest wood pellet market is still Europe, WRQ predicts that the U.S. will catch up as a result of policies to come from the new Obama administration.
“The new leadership in the U.S. government is going to have a positive impact on alternative fuel usage and the expected change in energy policy could very well result in increased imports of pellets from Canada to the U.S., which will eventually diminish the flow of biomass from North America to Europe,” WRQ stated in a press release. “As a result, European pellet consumers will have to search for alternative supply sources in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Russia.”
While the traditional source for wood-pellet fiber has been sawdust and shavings from the sawmilling industry, WRQ noted that this supply has begun to “tap out,” and alternative fiber from forest residues, urban wood waste, and fast-growing tree species is now being sought.
Out of the 10 million tons of pellets produced in 2008, WRQ noted that an estimated 25 percent of that, or close to 2.5 million tons, was exported from the country in which the pellets were produced.
“Most of the overseas volume was shipped from British Columbia (Canada) to Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden, despite the seemingly prohibitively costly 15,000-kilometer (9,321-mile) journey from the interior of British Columbia to the European market,” stated WRQ, adding that the low cost for raw material in Canada along with the high prices for wood pellets in Europe more than justify transportation costs for the long haul across the Atlantic Ocean.
WRQ posed an interesting question however: “The question is how long expansion of the overseas water-borne transport will continue to grow, given the uncertainty of future costs of oil and the paradox of consuming large quantities of low-refined heavy fuel oils for the shipments of green energy to European customers.”
Investors are SCARED, NO Money flowing into stocks. Most money is going into CASH. We will need to break ground before we move out of our trading range. This stock will be dead money for awhile. . . . JMO
Here in Suffolk NY (middle of Long Island) we have about 14" but it is blowing like hell (30+ MPH wind)
SAVE YOUR BUYS FOR THE END OF THE DAY. Lets keep it at .0007.
I was doing a little homework and found out that there are two (2)EPA Brownfield properties in Berlin, but LLEG's new plant in not on the list
1) Former Notre Dame high School/Burgess School - located at Summer St and Susan St
2) Former Fraser paper Administration Building - Located at Main St and 2nd st.
Brownfields are real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. Cleaning up and reinvesting in these properties takes development pressures off of undeveloped, open land, and both improves and protects the environment.
To access the Google Earth EPA renewable energy land tool sites, users can follow the step-by-step directions found at: www.epa.gov/renewableenergyland/
Download:
http://www.epa.gov/renewableenergyland/maps/epa_renewable_energy_sites.kmz
Good links for more info if you are bored
http://www.epa.gov/renewableenergyland/maps/pdfs/biopower_nh.pdf
http://www.epa.gov/renewableenergyland/incentives/nh_incentives_final.pdf
More wood biomass-generated power plant scheduled
Feb. 25, 2009, at 2:59 p.m. CST
Adage, a joint venture between electric power company Duke Energy and Areva, an energy products and services vendor, has signed a preliminary agreement with Washington-based power provider Energy Northwest to develop wood waste biomass power plants in Washington, Idaho, Montana and Oregon.
According to the agreement, the companies will market wood biomass-generated power to Energy Northwest’s 24 member utilities, as well as other regional utilities. The partnership’s goal is to construct and operate 50-megawatt biomass power facilities—each one will provide enough electricity to power about 40,000 homes—within the selected states.
Areva will construct the power plants; Duke Energy Generation Services, a commercial power business unit of Duke Energy, will operate them.
Headquartered in Chadds Ford, Penn., Adage was formed in September 2008. The joint venture between Areva and Duke Energy serves to develop bio-energy solutions for U.S. electricity customers; it has a goal of building and operating 10 to 12 standardized wood-biomass power plants in the U.S. by 2014.
FYI - Stimulus bill includes renewable energy provisions
• Extends the production tax credit (PTC) for qualified biomass and municipal solid waste facilities through 2013.
• The upfront investments and reforms in modernizing our nation’s electricity grid will result in more than 3,000 miles of new or modernized transmission lines.
• Creates a new 30 percent credit for investment in certain property used in a “qualifying advanced energy manufacturing project.” Qualifying projects include those that re-equip, expand or establish a manufacturing facility for the production of property designed to produce energy from certain renewable resources,
• Provides $16.8 billion for the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program, including $2.5 billion for applied research, development, demonstration and deployment activities to include $800 million for projects related to biomass.
• Provides $4.5 billion for the Electrical Delivery and Energy Reliability program.
http://www.biomassmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2437&q=&page=1
http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/Recovery_Act_Energy_2-17.pdf
Noob, buy at the end of the day 3:57pm not in the middle on the day
Berlin is about to get 1150 new residents. maybe the mayor can ask these soon to be new Berlin residents if Laidlaw in the best for there community. . . (there is no sarcasm in this post . . LOL)
Berlin, NH prison is nearly two-thirds done
Associated Press - February 24, 2009 4:05 PM ET
BERLIN, N.H. (AP) - A spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons says construction of the federal prison in Berlin, N.H., is nearly two-thirds done.
While work has slowed down because of the winter, Thomas Webber of the Bureau of Prisons says it will increase again as the weather gets warmer.
Earlier this month, the bureau hired Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. of Pasadena, Calif., to provide construction management services.
Webber said the contract is for 11 people, primarily estimators and inspectors.
The team of Bell Corporation and Heery International was selected in May 2007 to design and build the 1,150-bed prison. Site work got under way that fall.
Last summer, there were about 280 people working on the construction. Webber said construction is scheduled to be completed in September 2010.
Information from:
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=9898212&nav=menu183_2
It looks good but i would reduce the font on "Laidlaw" to gave a top border. it just looks too cramped going to the top. JMO
I just want to give them the physical shares. plus i do not have there SSN
What is the best way to buy shares for someone? can i call the transfer agent or should I just buy them and get them transferred? Any help
I posted an e-mail to some people at work and friends and told them to spread the news. I posted all the articles and all the good news and stated make up your own mind if you want in on this. One person got back to me stating a big buyer will be buying based on my recommendation . . . let’s hope
FYI Useless Press . . nothing new
http://www.wtvynews4.com/news/headlines/39772227.html
WOOD POWER
BERLIN, N.H. (AP) - Money doesn't grow trees. It grows in Washington. Now, a small New Hampshire city hopes to get some of the economic stimulus money for their trees. Berlin has seen its fortune sink with the decline of the local paper industry. But boosters are pitching Berlin as the perfect site to show how wood could be burned to generate power. Some in town don't like the idea of a wood-burning power plant, even with Uncle Sam picking up the tab. The owner of a local flower shop would rather have a casino or grand hotel in Berlin.
I did a search for laidlaw Energy on Facebook and found this: Interesting
Biomass in NH: Laidlaw Energy Group
Host: UNH Energy Club
Type: Education - Lecture
Network: Global
Time and PlaceDate: Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Time: 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location: MUB 332
Street: UNH Campus
City/Town: Durham, NH
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/event.php?sid=1d3af5ddac4a0a211a74bec088ffc306&eid=51481437148
More Press
http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090216/NEWS0201/902169938/-1/CITIZEN
NH town sees economic potential of timber as fuel
By BETH LaMONTAGNE HALL
Associated Press Writer
Monday, February 16, 2009
BERLIN, N.H. (AP) — The decades-long decline of the local paper industry finally did in Berlin's smoke-belching pulp mill in 2006. The year after the 100-year-old plant closed its doors, thousands gathered to watch a demolition crew topple three of its smokestacks.
Today, the thousands of acres of surrounding forest have some eyeing the city as a future renewable energy hub. The economic stimulus bill passed by Congress is expected to make billions of dollars available for homegrown, renewable energy and has residents of this small city 80 miles from the Canadian border sensing a turnaround.
Two electricity plants that would burn waste timber from the surrounding forest are in the works, as is a plant that would make the wood pellets used as fuel. But the area needs costly transmission line upgrades before the power plants can be fired up.
State Sen. John Gallus is pitching the upgrades as part of a renewable energy pilot project.
"Every state around is looking for these giant handouts from Washington right now but we're figuring we have kind of a two-fer going here," Gallus said. "It's a big infrastructure improvement and it's a renewable energy resource. This is two of the incoming president's big things he'd like to start with and we'd like to help him."
Known as the city that trees built, Berlin once thrived on its paper pulp mill. Since the mill closed, housing prices have plummeted and Main Street shops have struggled to stay afloat. City leaders have been looking, with little success, for something to give the city an economic boost.
They may have found the answer in the three wood-biofuel projects. Laidlaw Energy Group wants to build a 66-megawatt wood-burning power plant, employing 40, on the site of the former pulp mill. The wood-pellet factory is scheduled to break ground this spring and will create about 35 jobs. The second wood-burning power plant, on the Androscoggin River, will put two dozen people to work.
Company officials say jobs in the plants will indirectly create 700 more jobs over time.
"That all gets spent in the Berlin area," said Bill Gabler, project manager at Clean Power Development LLC. "Those guys take their wives out to dinner and buy new furniture, so the trickle down effect on the economy in the area is really pretty significant."
But before the proposed power plants can go online, the electrical transmission line that would carry power from Berlin to the rest of New England may have to be upgraded.
It doesn't have the capacity to handle the two plants and the other projects proposed for the thinly populated North Country, and upgrading the line is estimated to cost more than $100 million. The state could pay for it or ask regional power manager ISO New England to help get surrounding states to pitch in, but with states slashing spending, Gallus says Washington is the most promising source.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen wants the power line upgrades included in New Hampshire's stimulus funds and the region's congressman, Rep. Paul Hodes, believes increased transmission capacity could create more jobs and bring more affordable energy to the region.
Though residents generally support biomass energy, Laidlaw's plan to redevelop the old mill site has met with some resistance.
Barbara Guay, owner of Gill's Flower Shop on Main Street, said after decades of a big, smoke-spewing mill in the center of downtown, she'd rather see a grand hotel or a casino on the prime, riverside plot. But Guay understands that her business can't survive unless the city brings in more jobs.
"People aren't going to buy flowers when they need food and fuel," she said.
Mayor David Bertrand was voted into office in 2007 on a largely anti-Laidlaw platform.
"The demolition of the pulp mill was a very symbolic event in the history of Berlin. When people saw the stacks coming down I think it broke the mold and finally people began to realize, 'Hey, we've got to seek a new direction for the city of Berlin,'" Bertrand said.
Dick Huot, who heads economic development for Berlin-based Tri-County Community Action, said the city should add jobs any way it can until it gets back on its feet. He said Laidlaw can help by doing all it can to expand opportunities in the city.
"The biomass plant is like cod liver oil," he said. "If we have to take it, how can you sweeten it for us?"
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20090214-NEWS-90214003
NH town sees economic potential of timber as fuel
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February 14, 2009 7:01 AM
BERLIN, N.H. - The decades-long decline of the local paper industry finally did in Berlin's smoke-belching pulp mill in 2006. The year after the 100-year-old plant closed its doors, thousands gathered to watch a demolition crew topple three of its smokestacks.
Today, the thousands of acres of surrounding forest have some eyeing the city as a future renewable energy hub. The economic stimulus bill being debated in Congress could make billions of dollars available for homegrown, renewable energy has residents of this small city 80 miles from the Canadian border sensing a turnaround.
Two electricity plants that would burn waste timber from the surrounding forest are in the works, as is a plant that would make the wood pellets used as fuel. But the area needs costly transmission line upgrades before the power plants can be fired up.
State Sen. John Gallus is pitching the upgrades as part of a renewable energy pilot project.
"Every state around is looking for these giant handouts from Washington right now but we're figuring we have kind of a two-fer going here," Gallus said. "It's a big infrastructure improvement and it's a renewable energy resource. This is two of the incoming president's big things he'd like to start with and we'd like to help him."
Known as the city that trees built, Berlin once thrived on its paper pulp mill. Since the mill closed, housing prices have plummeted and Main Street shops have struggled to stay afloat. City leaders have been looking, with little success, for something to give the city an economic boost.
They may have found the answer in the three wood-biofuel projects. Laidlaw Energy Group wants to build a 66-megawatt wood-burning power plant, employing 40, on the site of the former pulp mill. The wood-pellet factory is scheduled to break ground this spring and will create about 35 jobs. The second wood-burning power plant, on the Androscoggin River, will put two dozen people to work.
Company officials say jobs in the plants will indirectly create 700 more jobs over time.
"That all gets spent in the Berlin area," said Bill Gabler, project manager at Clean Power Development LLC. "Those guys take their wives out to dinner and buy new furniture, so the trickle down effect on the economy in the area is really pretty significant."
But before the proposed power plants can go online, the electrical transmission line that would carry power from Berlin to the rest of New England may have to be upgraded.
It doesn't have the capacity to handle the two plants and the other projects proposed for the thinly populated North Country, and upgrading the line is estimated to cost more than $100 million. The state could pay for it or ask regional power manager ISO New England to help get surrounding states to pitch in, but with states slashing spending, Gallus says Washington is the most promising source.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen wants the power line upgrades included in New Hampshire's stimulus funds and the region's congressman, Rep. Paul Hodes, believes increased transmission capacity could create more jobs and bring more affordable energy to the region.
Though residents generally support biomass energy, Laidlaw's plan to redevelop the old mill site has met with some resistance.
Barbara Guay, owner of Gill's Flower Shop on Main Street, said after decades of a big, smoke-spewing mill in the center of downtown, she'd rather see a grand hotel or a casino on the prime, riverside plot. But Guay understands that her business can't survive unless the city brings in more jobs.
"People aren't going to buy flowers when they need food and fuel," she said.
Mayor David Bertrand was voted into office in 2007 on a largely anti-Laidlaw platform.
"The demolition of the pulp mill was a very symbolic event in the history of Berlin. When people saw the stacks coming down I think it broke the mold and finally people began to realize, 'Hey, we've got to seek a new direction for the city of Berlin,'" Bertrand said.
Dick Huot, who heads economic development for Berlin-based Tri-County Community Action, said the city should add jobs any way it can until it gets back on its feet. He said Laidlaw can help by doing all it can to expand opportunities in the city.
"The biomass plant is like cod liver oil," he said. "If we have to take it, how can you sweeten it for us?"
Just picked up 2million in my Roth account @ .0005
I have 1million order for .0004
World's first wave farm now generating power for 1,500 homes.
What will they think of next
http://www.stumbleupon.com/toolbar/#topic=Science/Tech&url=http%253A%252F%252Fdvice.com%252Farchives%252F2008%252F10%252Fworlds_first_wa.php
CONGRATULATION ! ! ! I lost faith but I am glad they came through to prove me wrong. I am glad I did not sell all...lets hold on for a ride
Most of the selling at .0004-.0005 and .006 was me (20mil). I lost faith in management not the concept. Good luck to the longs. I still have a few more 30+mil to sell, but not below .0005
I will always have 4+mil in my Roth IRA just in case I am wrong.