Business & Development

Domtar Corporation will be reopening its Woodland pulp mill this month because of a number of favorable changes in the marketplace.

Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) has been awarded over $800,000 in funding from the Maine Technology Asset Fund, granted by the Maine Technology Institute, which will be used to build and test the commercial design of its proprietary tidal energy technology.

Campobello's representative in Ottawa has been actively helping the islanders solve the banking crisis of losing their only financial institution when the Charlotte County Credit Union closes its doors on June 26.

Deer Island residents have been getting some additional work as a result of a new approach to salmon farming that Cooke Aquaculture has been helping to pioneer.

A year ago, Tide Mill Farm in Edmunds was featured by HP Hood on promotional brochures for the Stonyfield Farm organic yogurt and milk brand. One year later, "and we're the ones getting the pink slip," says Aaron Bell, who runs the dairy farm with his wife Carly DelSignore.

The fact that the modern world exists in a global economy was underscored last week when the Domtar Corporation, Washington County's largest employer, announced the shutdown for an "undetermined period" of its Woodland mill, beginning May 5. With about 63% of the pulpwood produced at the