PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • June 15, 2022
State regulators have approved a $63.6 million Central Maine Power transmission line upgrade in the Midcoast despite opposition from hundreds of people who say it is being undertaken in part to meet the future energy needs of a planned industrial-size salmon farm in Belfast. The Maine Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday set aside residents’ concerns about the planned Nordic Aquafarms land-based salmon farm project and rejected an alternate proposal that the area’s growing energy needs could instead be met by planned solar farms and other distributed energy resources in the region.