Letter: Concerns about Nordic Aquafarms project

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 5, 2022

Nordic Aquafarms would discharge  7.7 million gallons of warm effluent directly into the ocean on a daily basis in spite of the Gulf of Maine reportedly being one of the most rapidly warming bodies of water on earth. Nordic Aquafarms would generate an estimated 650,000 to 750,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. Nordic Aquafarms will dredge up sediment from the Penobscot Bay in order to bury its discharge and intake pipes through an intertidal zone out to the Gulf of Maine. Upstream Watch has raised concerns about this sediment being dewatered and dumped back into the Penobscot Bay by Nordic Aquafarms, further contaminating marine life by exposure to high levels of mercury. ~ Val Philbrick, Old Orchard Beach