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The Canadian company contracted to operate the CAT ferry service between Bar Harbor and Nova Scotia is being paid nearly $1 million a year while the high-speed vessel remains a no-speed one.
The 350-foot-long ferry has been idled for the past two years, initially because of delays in building a new terminal in Bar Harbor and in 2020 because of the pandemic. Last month, owner Bay Ferries Ltd. also canceled the CAT’s 2021 sailing season due to public health concerns.
While Bar Harbor businesses and the community will have to wait at least an additional year for the return of the service to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, residents and politicians there are frustrated for other reasons. The province has heavily subsidized the CAT, and two years ago Canada’s Progress Conservative party sued to obtain records revealing how much.