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Bill would bring land-based aquaculture under agriculture building regs  BUCKSPORT—A bill filed last month on behalf of Gov. Janet Mills would exempt land-based aquaculture facilities from certain state building and energy codes, as is afforded to buildings that house livestock or harvested crops.    The bill, LD 1473, was filed on April 14, and aims to bring the land-based aquaculture industry, including Whole Oceans, a land-based Atlantic salmon farm that is currently in the design stages, in line with the agricultural regulations.    The company is revamping the former Ve...

Bill seeks code exemptions for aquaculture sites BUCKSPORT — A bill filed last month on behalf of Governor Janet Mills would exempt land-based aquaculture facilities from certain state building and energy codes, as is afforded to buildings that house livestock or harvested crops. The bill, LD 1473, was filed on April 14, and aims to bring the land-based aquaculture industry, including Whole Oceans, a land-based Atlantic salmon farm that is currently in the design stages, in line with the agricultural regulations. The company is revamping the former Verso paper mill site in Bucksport and pla...

Maine Voices: Faulty arguments pressed against Belfast land-based salmon farm An activist group is misrepresenting a project that has been approved by regulators. By Erik HeimSpecial to the Press Herald Share An activist from Upstream Watch recently published a misleading opinion piece in the Press Herald attacking Nordic Aquafarms (“Regulators should question large-scale aquaculture,” March 29). The arguments are faulty from beginning to end, and seek to discredit an important economic development project for Belfast. First of all, who is Upstream Watch? It is a local group of activist...

BELFAST — Despite another round of discussion at the Belfast Zoning Board of Appeals March 12 meeting as to whether the nonprofit Upstream Watch attained standing to contest the city’s permitting of Nordic Aquafarms project permits, the board’s decision remained a firm ‘no.’ But Upstream plans to take its arguments, as it procedurally can do, to Waldo County Superior Court. “We absolutely are filing an appeal,” said Amy Grant, a cofounder of Upstream Watch, and a staunch opponent of the Norwegian company’s effort to build a $500 million indoor salmon raising and processing fa...

BELFAST — Upstream Watch, a nonprofit dedicated restoring the Little River, which empties into Penobscot Bay in Belfast, will be arguing Feb. 18 before the Belfast Zoning Board of Appeals as to why its members believe the December 2020 permit approvals for a $500 million land-based indoor salmon raising facility must be vacated. The meeting, to be held via Zoom, begins at 6 p.m., and can be viewed by the public via Livestream on the City of Belfast website, cityofbelfast.org, and on BEL-TV. The city said that Upstream Watch, which is represented by Attorney David B. Losee, in Camden, all...