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Billion-dollar aviation fuel facility coming to former Loring Air Force Base

by Melissa Lizotte
4 years ago
An employee for the Loring Development Authority looks out at the empty tarmac at the former Loring Air Force Base in Limestone on Aug. 2, 2005. (AP photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
DG Fuels hopes to employ 650 people producing up to 175 million gallons of fuel a year at the former Loring base.Read more.
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