Frenchman Bay Conservancy has formally requested that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conduct an environmental review and issue a statement under the U.S. Environmental Policy Act before any final decisions are made on American Aquafarms’ plan to raise 66 million pounds of Atlantic salmon annually at two sites in Frenchman Bay.
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Maine is ‘behind and laughably small.’ Good. Let s keep it that way
Lawrence Reichard Wed, 05/19/2021 - 9:45pm
Katie Brown s May 17 article on the carbon footprint of industrial aquaculture in Maine states that Nordic Aquafarms, along with two other industrial aquaculture projects, has received final or draft permits.
This is at best incomplete. Nordic has received permits from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and the Belfast Planning Board, but both those permits are being appealed, and Nordic has yet to receive a needed Army Corps of Engineers permit.
The article further states that the three projects would collectively discharge 47.3 million gallons of water per day. But Nordic s discharge of 7.7 million gallons a day would be effluent, not water, and it would contain no less than 1,600 pounds of nitrogen and 100 pounds of phosphorous - hardly the harmless-sounding water cited in the article.
To our readers, Most boring town meeting in 50 years
By Carolyn Zachary | May 17, 2021
Photo by: Carolyn Zachary Selectman Peter Milinazzo, left, and Ken Seekins load chairs into Seekins pickup outside the Fire Station following Searsmont s town meeting May 15.
Searsmont Birthday boy Lee Woodward sped 60 Searsmont residents through the first 24 articles in the Annual Town Meeting Warrant May 15 in just 40 minutes. Explanations of the last three articles, all related to updates to the town’s Land Use Ordinance, took another 14 minutes, and chairs were stacked, loaded and gone in just 13 minutes more.
No one opposed a single article in the streamlined warrant. And, in the wake of the governor’s recent announcement, not a single person wore a mask – although chairs were placed 6 feet apart inside the Fire Station and just outside its wide-open doors.
PORTLAND, Maine Tree-cutting on a key stretch of a $1 billion hydropower project in western Maine is going to stop almost as soon as it started to protect the newly born young of a federally protected bat.The New England Clean Energy Connect has a.