Plaster Rock Fires Up: A more than 100-year-old sawmill in Atlantic Canada has a new lease on life thanks in part to a project that will see its energy costs plummet

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Abrand new biomass powered energy system is helping a long-standing sawmill in western New Brunswick secure its future. Employees at the Plaster Rock dimension lumber mill, which is owned by Eraser Papers and located in the small town of Plaster Rock,fired up the new equipment in mid-November of 2009. At a cost of about $10.5 million, the energy system accounted for the biggest portion of an almost $18-million investment Eraser Papers made in the facility But it hasn't been an easy ride for the company The upgrade project had been approved in the fall of 2008; the last log was processed on Eebruary 13, 2009, prior to the upgrade work starting. But everything came to a screeching halt four months later in June 2009, when Eraser Papers went into creditor protection. It would be an additional five months before the mill would produce another stick of lumber.