Laidlaw Berlin BioPower officials and consultants were grilled for over six hours Wednesday on the technical aspects of their proposed biomass plant.
Questions focused on the company’s financial structure and capacity, wood supply and sustainability, local impacts of noise and truck traffic, and the Coos transmission system.
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