DAILY BULLDOG • February 19, 2024
Regarding the recent $4 million grant issued by Janet T. Mills to Kingfish Maine, is our governor really supporting yet another foreign company to siphon profits from Mainers? This grant reflects a fundamental problem with Maine’s economic development ‘strategy’. Kingfish Zeeland, located in the Netherlands, is the financially-troubled parent company being supported by Maine’s leaders to invade Downeast Maine. The proposed site in Jonesport will ‘recirculate’ 28 million gallons of Chandler Bay water per day, adding a one-ton splash of nitrogen and phosphorous per day along with an occasional dab of formalin. And this industrial complex will extract 43,200 gallons of fresh water per day from the aquifer. I am at a loss to understand the logic of this grant. ~ Richard Aishton, Steuben