In a recent borough memo, public facilities director Ed Coffland said the Haines biomass boiler project isn’t economical, that the cost of purchasing wood chips is more than buying fuel oil. Coffland recommended to the borough manager that the government should not proceed with the project. In response, the borough assembly at its Jan. 28 meeting scheduled a town hall meeting in early March to discuss the issue.
Project proponents say Cofflands’s analysis is too…