BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 13, 2021
According to an Oct. 29 article on the Nordic Aquafarms land dispute: “Ownership of the mudflat matters because it’s where the Norwegian-owned company wants to bury its pipes to funnel water to and from Penobscot Bay.” What Nordic Aquafarms would funnel into Penobscot Bay is 7.7 million gallons of treated effluent a day. That could cause algae blooms and attract lice that would attach to passing wild fish, and it could threaten local fisheries, lobstering, bathing, boating, tourism and home values. That’s not water. Nordic should do the right thing and scrap its plan to dump nearly 3 billion gallons of effluent a year into our beloved Belfast Bay. ~ Lawrence Reichard, Belfast