FREE PRESS • August 24, 2021
A small Wabanaki delegation joined about 70 opponents of the proposed Nordic Aquafarms land-based salmon farm in Belfast on August 20 for a quiet protest of a development they say threatens the health of local waters. The protest was held at the waterfront property of Jeffrey Mabee and Judith Grace, who, along with two local environmental groups, Friends of Harriet L. Hartley Conservation Area and Upstream Watch, have filed multiple lawsuits seeking to block a pipeline to Penobscot Bay that Nordic needs for the salmon farm. One of the lawsuits contends that Mabee and Grace own a strip of the intertidal land that would be crossed by the pipeline. Nordic Aquafarms announced recently that it had received its final permit for the project,