MAINE PUBLIC • November 19, 2020
The Nordic Aquafarms facility would produce 30,000 metric tons of salmon a year at a roughly 55-acre campus near Belfast Bay. In the process it would draw about 5,200 gallons of fresh and saltwater a minute and discharge some 7.7 million gallons of filtered wastewater a day into the bay. In an online meeting, the Board Environmental Protection approved permits for impacts on air and water quality, including discharges to the bay. “We have been denied the right to supplement the record, whereas Nordic has been allowed to supplement this record repeatedly since the record allegedly closed,” says Kim Tucker, an attorney who has represented project opponents in various forums.