[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Company proposes $4 billion aviation fuel facility at Loring Air Force Base" (ME)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Company proposes $4 billion aviation fuel facility at Loring Air Force Base

by Melissa Lizotte
Bangor Daily News (ME)
November 15, 2022

LIMESTONE, Maine — The group behind an industrial park at the former Loring Air Force Base is expecting its first major business in many years.

Launched after the base’s closure in 1994, the Loring Development Authority manages a 3,800-acre industrial, commercial and aviation center that has struggled to retain large employers in the past decade. 

But the tide might be changing thanks to Washington, D.C.-based DG Fuels, which wants to build a $4 billion facility in Limestone. It would be Aroostook County’s second major aerospace business, following the September announcement that VALT Enterprizes will build a $4.5 million rocket research center in Presque Isle. Loring officials hope the project will lead to more sustainable economic development and boost their new marketing campaign.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/11/15/news/aroostook/loring-aviation-fuel-xoasq1i29i/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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