By Jay Field
Maine Public Broadcasting Network

This is a story about trade-offs in America’s green economy, where the push to tidy up the air can sometimes conflict with the desire to use cleaner, renewable kinds of energy.

Bruce Lindberg runs Lee Academy. “We have a campus of 14 buildings and all of our buildings are heated with fuel oil,” he says.

That works out to 55,000 gallons of fuel annually–at prices that, Lindberg says, have fluctuated in recent year, from just under $2 dollars to almost $5 dollars per gallon.

“Lee is located right in central Maine, right in the huge part of the Northeast forest, so it made sense for us to investigate using wood chips or biomass or pellets, as an alternative to fuel oil,” Lindberg says.

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