BETHESDA, Md. –Enviva Inc., the world’s leading producer of sustainably sourced woody biomass, has been recognized as a “Sustained Distinguished Performance River Star Business” by the Elizabeth River Project for its energy savings efforts, metal recycling, and increased oyster gardening programs. …Partner businesses, known as River Star Businesses, contribute by supporting the overall health of the river by improving flood control and restoring crucial wetlands and wildlife habitat. …The committee unanimously agreed Enviva’s Port of Chesapeake terminal should be recognized for its achievements in removing more than 217,000 pounds of metal waste, recycling over 79,000 pounds of old conveyor belt, maintaining 20 oyster cages as part of the Bay Foundation’s Oyster Restoration program, as well as upgrading and implementing new energy-saving lighting throughout the port terminal.
MALVERN, ARKANSAS – Arkansas State University Three Rivers was gifted $150,000 from timber company, West Fraser, to be received over the next three years. The two entities first established their partnership in 2017 when ASU Three Rivers began providing leadership training for the four Arkansas West Fraser mills. As a result of the success of that training, the partnership grew to developing West Fraser’s millwrights and electricians. The College provides the West Fraser Qualified Millwright and Electrician Training Program for West Fraser employees in the US South. “At West Fraser, we value our relationship with ASU Three Rivers and recognize the important role it plays in developing people, providing skilled graduates and building a successful community by offering programs that are accessible and responsive to the diverse needs of students, business and the region,” Chester Fort, Vice President, US Lumber, West Fraser said.
The warm winter weather is not just a problem for snowmobilers and skiers, it’s also keeping loggers out of the woods. Dana Doran of the Professional Logging Contractors of Maine says loggers depend on frozen ground to cut wood without eroding soils, so winter is usually go time for logging contractors. “This year is completely different, it’s almost a 180, we’re in the middle of what seems to be mud season conditions right now, and for the last couple of weeks. A lot of contractors, I’d say the majority of them, have had to shut down for long periods of time,” Doran says many mill yards at both pulp and paper plants and sawmills are virtually empty, at a time of year when they should be brimming with wood.
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BERLIN, New Hampshire — Since the mid-1800s, the economy of Berlin, New Hampshire, known as “The City that Trees Built,” revolved around the paper mill located in the heart of the city. Therefore, it was a devastating blow when the Fraser Paper pulp mill closed in 2006, as the community of Berlin and the rest of the region were dependent on the mill as a critical employer. “In 2008, an opportunity arose to bring new life to the shuttered mill by converting its existing black liquor boiler into a state-of-the-art, 75-MW biomass power generating facility, and Burgess BioPower was born,” says Sarah Boone, vice president of public affairs for Burgess BioPower. “Today, Burgess BioPower delivers 500,000 megawatt hours of local, clean and reliable power to New Hampshire annually, along with acting as an economic driver in the state’s North Country and beyond.” …Today, Burgess BioPower is the largest single buyer of biomass in the state. 
