Environmental Group to Buy Land Once Eyed for Maine Salmon Farm
An environmental conservation nonprofit that fought to prevent a $500 million salmon farm from opening in Belfast is set to purchase the land the farm would have operated on.
Upstream Watch is under contract to purchase the 54-acre property from Nordic Aquafarms, the Norwegian developer behind the controversial aquaculture project.
Interim Executive Director Pete Nichols said the purchase is a natural extension of Upstream Watch's original goal: to conserve the land, its habitats, the adjacent Little River and the waters of Penobscot Bay. The area includes a...
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