Simply Green Biofuels nabs Maine Environmental Hero award

In Maine, Simply Green Biofuels received the Maine Environmental Hero Award, which will be awarded at the Going Green Expo in Saco. The award was given in recognition of a bailout of 75 customers strannded in mid-winter without oil heat when conventional oil companies Veilleux Oil, Price Rite and Perron Fuels all went out of business. Simply Green honored the fixed-rate and converted the customers to biofuels as oil prices skyrocketed. The company produces BQ-9000 certified biodiesel from tallow and soybean oil.

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