Local businessman Jonathan Edwards has been a tireless opponent of Laidlaw Berlin BioPower’s plan to convert the former pulp mill recovery boiler into a 70-megawatt biomass plant. Edwards has made it clear that he feels putting a biomass plant in the middle of the city would be detrimental to Berlin’s future growth and development. He has thrown his support behind Clean Power Development’s proposal for a smaller 29-megawatt facility by the city’s wastewater treatment plant.
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