BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 6, 2020
The full-page ad by Nordic Aquafarms in a recent edition of the BDN was very pretty and very promising. Let’s look at it more carefully. Now try to imagine the mature forest, wildlife habitat, and important ecosystem that will be forever destroyed. Then consider the five-plus years of noise, dust and traffic engendered by the excavation and construction required. Then learn about the amount of fresh water needed from local aquifers. Then, understand how the daily discharge of 7.7 million gallons of effluent into Belfast Bay could form a persistent plume of 100 million gallons of warm nitrogen-rich wastewater. The picture is not so pretty and the promises are not so convincing. ~ Martha M. Block, Northport