Hemant Pendse, director of the Forest Bioproducts Research Institute and chemical engineering professor at the University of Maine, was mentioned in a Maine Public Broadcasting Network report about the expiration of a 30-year waste disposal agreement between more than 180 communities and the Penobscot Energy Recovery Co. PERC, which generates electricity with its Orrington incinerator, read more Pendse cited in MPBN report on expiring waste disposal agreement