Nordic AQ Oct 14th Belfast Planning Board discusses outfalls, nitrogen

On October 14th  Belfast's Planning Board  got briefings from its environmental consultant, Mandy Oliver, on the proposed Nordic Aqua Farms land based salmon farm's pipeline and outfalls 9min30sec  and the amount of nitrogen coming out.  13min 48sec  Have a listen (mp3s)

 The board asked what  treatments  the treated habitat water and slaughter-water  would get before they reach the outfall pipe?  Where will effluent plumes discharging from the outfall go? Where will the filtered out solids go?  What if over-nitrification of the water  causes algae blooms?    

The state's bad  idea  is to wait until the project is built and operating for a year  before using dye tests to  figuring out if there will be too much waste in the wrong places in Penobscot Bay.   

But if the answer turns out to be yes, then what? If cutting production makes it unprofitable, won't the fish company close down? Or will Nordic merely have to pay a Wergild for the injury to the bay, and go on polluting?

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