The Maine City Council of Belfast on Thursday voted 5-0 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 land-based salmon farm.
"We just achieved our second big milestone this summer, and now look forward to final engineering needed for construction start," Erik Heim, president of Nordic Aquafarms Inc.,
