Orrington

The buyer has begun hiring staff to work toward restarting the plant, including some employees from the old company.  

The settlement follows multiple studies and will include removing contaminated sediment and 30 to 45 years of monitoring.

A former chlor-alkali facility in Orrington released mercury into the estuary. Today’s owner of the site has paid over $30 million so far and agreed to another $267 million for remediation, disposal and contingencies.

Recently completed work includes the construction of towers in Buckfield, Charleston, Dexter and Dresden, as well as upgrades in a dozen other Maine communities.

The $15 million operation at the Penobscot Energy Recovery Co. site will sanitize woodchips for sale to European Union companies as biofuel, leasing space that became available after PERC streamlined.

Penobscot Energy Recovery Co. unveiled its new multimillion-dollar waste processing system, which will streamline waste processing and use less energy than the previous one.

The Penobscot Energy Recovery Company, a waste-to energy facility in Orrington, received on Wednesday the Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence for its successful effort to achieve zero discharge of wastewater into the Penobscot River.

Owners of the Penobscot Energy Recovery Co.’s waste-to-energy plant in Orrington and the organization that represents most...

How easy is it to become the owner of a 156-acre, 18-hole golf course — complete with all of the accouterments? For one woman in Orrington, it took around two hours and $350,001.

About 6,000 tons of mercury-contaminated soil was hauled away from the former HoltraChem Manufacturing Co. site in Orrington in December as part of an approximately $130 million environmental cleanup, the Bangor Daily News reported.