BANGOR DAILY NEWS • September 29, 2021
Even though the city of Belfast took eminent domain action to allow an aquaculture company access to a hotly contested strip of mudflat, the city and the company still must obey a conservation easement placed on the land until a court says otherwise. That’s the opinion of Maine Assistant Attorney General Lauren Parker, who this week sent Belfast City Attorney Kristin Collins a letter in response to a request from the city earlier this summer. The contested mudflat is where Nordic Aquafarms, a company that intends to build a $500 million land-based salmon farm on the inland side of Route 1 in Belfast, wants to bury pipes to get water to and from Penobscot Bay.