BANGOR DAILY NEWS • December 30, 2024
After more than 1,400 gallons of toxic firefighting foam containing “forever chemicals” spilled from a fire suppression system at the Brunswick Executive Airport, there was little concern about where the foam would eventually end up as long as it was out of state. Newly released receipts from Clean Harbor, the Massachusetts-based company that cleaned up that foam, show it was shipped off to two facilities: one in Corunna, Ontario and the other in El Dorado, Arkansas. The Ontario facility received 12,000 thousand gallons of the foam and water mix to burn and the center in Arkansas got more than 11,000. The company claims online its incinerators destroy 99.9 percent of “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, though the EPS says “… uncertainties remain about the effectiveness of thermal treatment.”