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Anyone know what Kurt is doing in Sweden this week (apart from environmentally friendly social distancing)?
Yeah...it is a bit like that. Lol.
Yes of course Suzy. I'm thinking Wells as I keep seeing Harvestmen everywhere at the moment which reminds me of the war of the worlds.
Sorry...W B Yeats's rose.
No, Hasty, T S Eliot's Little Gidding... don't actually like it, except for that particular line and when it comes to summoning the spectre of a rose, I'd much rather have W B Yeat's rose, I like that a lot. :-)
No, Hasty...T S Eliot.
Suzy are you paraphrasing H G Wells?
Yes your right Suzy but I didn’t !
"We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring, will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time..." Will it be Jokkmokk? Alamal....I think you nearly said the E word then.
Morning All.
Many many many times !
We need all the help we can get quite frankly... I sense the pressure is building and the political landscape changing. But we’ve been here before many times...
Morning Pocko thank you very much for the report it all reads well, it’s times like this I wish I was fifty years younger, Good luck,
Post on the FB page of the Mayor Robert Bernhardsson.
“500 NEW jobs in Jokkmokk municipality 2021 and 2022!
A headline that would give local business a proper injection of competence and capital.
If processing concession was granted with subsequent approved environmental tests, etc. the start of iron ore mine would have started now, 500 NEW jobs the foundation estimated to last in 2021 and 2022. Then production (with fewer employees) in 25-30 years, it follows few companies that can demonstrate activities to 2050. EU and the UN have clearly shown increased need (taken into account increased recycling rate) of minerals. There is a lot that speaks for Kallak.
The investment provides valuable supplements for local business, not least for housing facilities, technology consultants and the contracting industry.
By comparison, 500 new jobs in Jokkmokk municipality correspond to more than 6000 new jobs in Luleå. In other words, Jokkmokk's business would have a great addition of economic activity.
It is worth reminding that service companies and shops come when the base exists and it is important not to close any doors for new jobs, the municipality needs it!“
It’s called ‘managed decline’ EricDraven... It’s still occurring all over the UK with the exception of London... Whether it’s the same in Sweden I don’t know?
Thanks Pocko. It could be though, and it looks like it, that the Government is quite happy to oversee the demise of Jokkmokk.
Budgie must do something.
‘Kallak’ was mentioned... but in what context I don’t know. But the Mayor is pro-mine so I’d hazard a guess that it was positive.
Re "In the video above, you hear the municipal council about the situation and what to do to reverse the trend."
Pocko, did anyone by any chance say "Build a mine?"
We need every little bit of pressure we can get...
Thanks Pocko...I forgot to post the link
The Mayor is supportive of BEM as I understand it?
A decline easily reversed with job creation...
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/norrbotten/allt-farre-invanare-i-jokkmokk-befolkningstal-som-pa-1910-talet?fbclid=IwAR0hmYyIBeI8zmTWoyfYoKEd10WSzunKmDXtUWCMCUIZbF2CH9sceOrHKPg
Jokkmokk municipality needs to demolish thousands of square meters of public premises to reduce its costs. This is because the municipality's infrastructure is based on what it was like when it had between ten and eleven thousand inhabitants. Today, just under five thousand people live in the country's second largest municipality to the surface.
The population in Jokkmokk municipality has decreased by an average of 39 people in the last four half years. If, against all odds, it continued at exactly the same pace, the municipality would be completely empty in a little less than 63 years.
However, it is not really that bad, believes municipal councilor Robert Bernhardsson (S).
- The number of births and deaths in the municipality will be more balanced in 7-10 years, he says.
But with fewer and fewer residents, the municipality's structure is becoming more and more obsolete because it is based on what it looked like in the 50s and 60s, and therefore you now have to demolish public premises, among other things.
In the video above, you hear the municipal council about the situation and what to do to reverse the trend.
Pressure...thanks TFFL. The Mayor speaks for 1 minute, its in Swedish but I'm sure he mentioned Kallak as something that could be a bright thing on the horizon (I made that up but I think its what was meant).