WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
VOL. 20 NO. 104
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Conversion of boiler underway at mill BY BARBARA TETREAULT THE BERLIN DAILY SUN
GORHAM -- The new burners for the No 1 boiler at Gorham Paper and Tissue should be installed by the beginning of next week as the mill moves closer to switching over to natural gas. Plant Manager Willis Blevins said work on the boiler was underway yesterday and engineer
Andrew Hartford has assured him the conversion will be completed by Sept. 19. Once the conversion is complete, the boiler will be able to burn natural gas which is expected to save the plant as much as $1 million a month in lower energy costs. The mill has been burning No. 6 fuel oil. Blevins said he will be talking to Trans-Canada officials Friday to set up the schedule to do the tap-in for the gas line. The mill gas line will connect
in Berlin to the Portland National Gas Transmission System pipeline owned by Trans-Canada. The spur will travel from the PNGTS line across the Androscoggin River on an old railroad bridge to the mill. Blevins said work was also underway yesterday bringing the line across the bridge. Once the gas line is up and running to the mill, Blevins said the No 2 boiler will be converted to see MILL page 5
Babcock and Wilcox hired to construct biomass plant BY BARBARA TETREAULT THE BERLIN DAILY SUN
BERLIN -- In 1993, Babcock & Wilcox installed the recovery boiler at the then James River pulp mill at a cost of almost $100 million. Now, almost 20 years later, the company’s con-
struction business has been awarded a $186 million contract to convert that boiler into a 75-megawatt biomass plant. The North Carolina-based company yesterday announced Babcock and Wilcox Construction Co. Inc., has agreed to engineer, procure, and construct
the biomass plant for Berlin Station. A subsidiary of B&W, Delta Power Services, was awarded a six year contract worth more than $19 million to provide operations and maintenance services for the plant. Babcock & Wilcox Construction will convert the see CONSTRUCT page 9
Council tackles redistricting again BY BARBARA TETREAULT THE BERLIN DAILY SUN
Hot soup was handed out free by WREN volunteers at last week’s Farmers Market. Vendors and customers contributed vegetables to make the community “Stone Soup”. The popular weekly events comes to a close with the last market of the season this Thursday, Sept. 15. (BARBARA TETREAULT PHOTO).
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BERLIN -- City Planner Pamela Laflamme Monday night presented the city council with two more options for redistricting the city’s wards to conform to the new U.S. Census data. The council must select an option soon in order to get it approved by the N.H. Secretary of State’s office in time to get on the ballot for the presidential primary next January. Last month the council rejected the initial option developed by Laflamme because it would have moved Ward III Councilor Mike Rozek into Ward I. Laflamme was asked to come back with an option that did not dislocate any of the existing councilors. While the new options meet that goal, the council still expressed its displeasure with the need for widespread changes because of the presence of the state prison in Ward III. City Clerk Debra Patrick explained that the census counts inmates even through most can not vote. New Hampshire bans incarcerated felons from voting Patrick noted there are some inmates serving sentences for misdemeanors who can vote but the vast majority are felons. see COUNCIL page 3
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