Business & Development

Washington County is closer to seeing 30 wind turbines erected by Apex Clean Energy. The Virginia based company through its subsidiary Downeast Wind began the process in 2015.

Eighty workers belonging to three local unions at the Woodland Pulp mill went on strike this week, after rejecting the company's contract offer.

The recent escape of 50,000 juvenile salmon from a fish farm off Cutler has again raised concerns about the risks posed to wild Atlantic salmon by net-pen aquaculture.

The first commercial-scale operation of a heat-treating system for wood chips for overseas shipment occurred at the Port of Eastport on July 27 and 28. The phytosanitation of 40 tons of southern yellow pine chips was conducted by Phyto-Charter Inc.

The second wood chip shipment imported through the Port of Eastport this year soon ran into a problem with the port's bulk conveyor system, but quick action and support from area contractors led to the unloading operation not taking much longer than had been expected.

This past week's arrival of a cruise ship with the largest number of passengers to visit Eastport is a prelude to a number of midsize vessels that will be coming to the island city this fall.