Arne -its the left not the greens10 Sep 2018 18:20
A commentator on mining who is not in favour of the mine - his thoughts;
The election is over. It has been an election campaign where the démarche and promises have been many. A large part of these will probably prove to have 9.9.2018 as "best before date". myself, I think the most interesting thing has been to follow what it has not been talked about. In the areas I am most concerned with, this has been very clear. I thought it might be worth pointing out some of these "forgotten" but important issues, which will be important over the next four years. I'll start with the mines.
It is a string of gruvärenden that will be the subject of government decisions, sooner or later - kallak, northern swamps, Laver, kyrkberget, viscaria m FL. These cases run the whole width of all the issues linked to the balance between mines and other interests, such as the rennäring, the protection of valuable nature, the environmental risks and the view of socio-economic costs and revenues of mines. I have made some efforts to learn from the pollution about their views on these issues. The only party that has so far given any form of information is the left party who expressed scepticism against both the kallak and the laver. The other parties have not wanted to answer this question (I am waiting for answers from the greens).
All possible regeringsalternativ will be behind mineralstrategin, d v s to seek a rapid expansion of mining. In the only government decision in recent years on a permit for a mine, which was the case of the rönnbäcken in västerbotten, the decision was that the jobs that the mine was expected to give gave priority to the reindeer. My strong suspicion is that the forthcoming government in most of the cases in question will also say yes to the applications of the mining.
In view of the strong local resistance that exists against several of these projects, it is likely that this will be political issues that will characterise the coming years. In particular, the kallak has become a symbol of the ever-increasing conflicts between reindeer and different exploateringsintressen. If a new government says yes to kallak, despite the risk of the project, a shared local population and a clear no from the county board, this can lead to the greatest battle of Sami rights and environmental issues in many years.
At the end of September, the investigation on how to speed up the new mines will be speeded up. Here too, the silence of the parties is total about what changes you can imagine. Here I am, too, in the dark. There are reasons to pay attention when the investigation comes. I do not think it is easy to see how to speed up the process, but that this means reducing the cost of the process.
An investigation that has already been put forward at mine is about how the rules are to be tightened up so that there should be money to clean up after disused mines. It showed that today there may be a glitch of about four billion further in financial collater
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