After months of waiting, speculating and often-heated debating about how a proposed land-based fish farm in Belfast would affect Penobscot Bay, Nordic Aquafarms on Thursday night released some preliminary information regarding what it actually might put into the water.
The public information hearing at Troy Howard Middle School in Belfast, attended by around 200 people, was the first held as the Norwegian-owned company winds its way through the long permitting process. In about two weeks, the company will file an application with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection for a pollution discharge elimination permit, the first of several local, state and federal permits to be obtained before construction can begin.
“Our production is dependant on having clean water,” Erik Heim, the founder of Nordic Aquafarms, said at the beginning of the presentation. “One of the reasons we ended up in this region was clean water. Clean, cold water is excellent for salmon.”
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