Lamar Cantrell has a clean reputation. He was among the first loggers in Jackson County, Georgia to buy a chipper and start hauling what he once considered trash up to the new 20 MW Multitrade Rabun Gap biomass power plant in Rabun Gap. That was in 2010. As the owner of Cantrell Forest Products (CFP) for the past dozen years, Cantrell says he's still waiting to see the green from green energy. "Biomass is more of a break even thing right now," he says. But there is an important and lasting benefit tochipping up brush, slash and undergrowth and this surprised even a lifelong logger like Cantrell, who started running a skidder for his father, David Cantrell, as a young teenager.
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