Business in Fort Kent Benefits From Coal

Bangor Daily News
October 2 2008

FORT KENT, Maine — Forget the image of a hapless Bob Cratchit huddled next to a small stove, scuttle in hand, stoking the boiler with his meager coal rations under a thick cloud of black smoke.

Today’s coal-fired furnaces burn hotter, cleaner and more efficiently than their Dickensian predecessors in addition to being less expensive to run than oil and less labor-intensive than firewood, Fort Kent businessman Robert Berube said.

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