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The report from the University of Maine says the industry’s impact was tied to 16% of the jobs in Aroostook County that year.

increase font size Trail of ‘forever chemicals’ leads to Maine paper mills The manufacturing industry, which has used PFAS for decades, faces a reckoning as the state grapples with soil and water contamination. Share Nathan Saunders, whose well was contaminated by sludge that was spread on nearby fields, poses Thursday in front of the field located directly across the street from his home in Fairfield. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer FAIRFIELD — For 32 of its 33 years in this...

"We had the wood resource. We had the loggers available to cut the wood. But we just didn't didn't have the capacity to come online fast enough to produce the lumber in the panels that were needed."

Read Article Keri Libby sits in the operators cockpit of the de-barker machine at Moose River Lumber in Jackman on May 10. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel Lumber has become a hot commodity over the past year – more than doubling in price by some measures – but the spike in demand isn’t likely to benefit most wood suppliers in Maine. Demand for building materials has jumped during the pandemic, caused at least in part by the hot real estate market that has led many to buy land away f...

The plan, which must be approved by the Maine Legislature, calls for workforce training, broadband expansion, small-business support, investment in innovation as well as heritage industries, child care and housing.

By Staff A public survey released Thursday shows Mainers are generally bullish about the future of the state’s forest products industry, but have little awareness of how it’s changing. Of nearly 500 survey respondents throughout the state, 80% would recommend Maine students consider a forest-related job. FOR/Maine, a public-private coalition promoting the forest products industry, conducted the online poll late in 2020. About 55% of respondents said they were “very optimisti...

Governors Forest Carbon Task Force Forests cover 89 percent of Maine and are the foundation for Maine’s forest products industry and the state’s overall natural resource-based economy. Each year, Maines forests sequester an amount of carbon equal to at least 60 percent of the states annual carbon emissions, a figure that rises to 75 percent when durable forest products are included. The Forest Carbon Task Force work seeks to build upon this effort. Created by Executive Order of Governor Jan...

February 3, 2021 For more information contact: Jim Britt at: jim.britt@maine.gov Task force will consider forest carbon storage incentives for small-to-medium size woodland owners to help protect their property while fighting climate change AUGUSTA, Maine - As part of Maines ambitious effort to fight climate change by reducing harmful greenhouse gas emissions, Governor Janet Mills has signed an Executive Order to create the Maine Forest Carbon Task Force. The Task Force is a recommendation fro...

Opinions differ on potential impact as Waterville rail yard is sold to CSX CSX Corp., the freight rail system whose tracks cross nearly every state east of the Mississippi River, is buying Pan Am Railways, extending its network into northern New England. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel Change could be coming to the sprawling yard, however, given the impending purchase of its parent company. Pan Am, formerly known as Guilford Transportation Industries, bought Maine Central Railroad in 1983. Pa...