Belfast board ordered to reconsider challenge to commercial fish farm

MAINE PUBLIC • August 4, 2023

In December 2020, the group Upstream Watch appealed the Belfast planning board's issuance of several permits to Nordic Aquafarms for an estimated $500 million salmon facility. But on Thursday, Maine's Supreme Judicial Court said that a lower court erred when it upheld the Belfast Board of Zoning Appeals decision that Upstream Watch lacked standing. So the court is directing the board to re-consider that appeal. The law court also recently ruled that Nordic lacks right, title and interest to a key piece of property needed for the project.