It remains unclear whether the city of Belfast, Maine, will be able to move forward to exercise eminent domain -- a power local US government entities can use to take private property and convert it into public use -- in order for Nordic Aquafarms to have crucial access to a mudflat it requires for outflow pipes for its proposed land-based salmon farm.

On Monday, Maine Attorney General Lauren Parker responded to Belfast's request that her office "not initiate any action" preventing it from exercising eminent domain by saying that "only a court may terminate that conservation easement."