BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 14, 2021
Sometimes Maine seems like a third world country to me. A multi-national company is removing spring water and exporting it in plastic bottles around the world. Other foreign-owned companies want to cut up some of the north woods so they can sell power largely out-of-state. In Belfast, a Norwegian company wants to use our fresh water and dump wastewater into our bay. All want to make a profit from our resource and take it home. In third world countries, we say this happens because the local politicians are corrupt. So what do we call it when our local leaders will do anything so a fish factory can have what they want? Oh! I forgot Maine is a third world country, so give them whatever they want. And don’t forget to thank them. ~ Richard Deforge, Belfast