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Norway to allow mining waste to be dumped in fjords (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 10 months ago by girlfreddy@lemmy.ca to c/world@lemmy.world

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After a 15-year dispute, the private company Nordic Mining has been given the go-ahead to dispose of 170m tons of mining waste at the bottom of the Førde fjord, which critics say will threaten marine life and put biodiversity at risk.

The decision means Norway joins only two other countries – Papua New Guinea and Turkey – who still grant new licences for marine waste disposal.

The court ordered Friends of the Earth Norway and Nature and Youth, the two environmental organisations who brought the case, to pay legal costs of about £110,000. They could still take the case to the court of appeal, but say their resources are too diminished to continue their fight.

“This contravenes the Aarhus convention, which states that access to justice in environmental matters should not be financially prohibitive,” said Truls Gulowsen, the head of Friends of the Earth Norway. “We just don’t have the money to pursue the case at this moment in time.”

He added that the verdict might discourage future lawsuits to protect the environment against commercial forces.

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[-] giantfloppycock@lemm.ee 98 points 10 months ago

Jesus that’s depressing.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 73 points 10 months ago

Norway you done fucked up.

[-] frshmt@lemmy.zip 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They’ve been fucking up for a while now, this is just another one to add on to pile.

[-] Something_Complex@lemmy.world 64 points 10 months ago

Ahhhh after all you are as corrupt as your southern European cousins over here.

Welcome to our lives

[-] theodewere@kbin.social 50 points 10 months ago

publish the names of the people who benefit financially from dumping their shit in the fjord

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world -5 points 10 months ago

Why? Not like anyone, besides Norwegians, will be able to remember the name.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago

Conservatives destroy everything.

[-] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

Labour government.

[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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[-] limonfiesta@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You're using American verbiage, which is incorrect usage for this situation.

Conservatives traditionally conserve i.e. conserve traditions, nature, etc.

This is liberalism, in the classical laissez-faire sense, not the bastardized American usage of the word.

[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 42 points 10 months ago

Fucking idiots.

[-] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 33 points 10 months ago

Slartibartfast is not happy at all with these developments

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Norway is no longer my favorite Nordic country. They just have the balls to suddenly stop being beautiful or something.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Is it Estonia time to shine?

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

In a parallel universe, yes.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Here's a very entertaining book for folks to read as entertainment. It will be especially entertaining if you live in Norway

[-] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There literally isn't anywhere in Norway that isn't

A: a fjord

B: a national park or

C: built on

Yeah it pollutes the fjord but Førdefjorden isn't one of the good ones.

The best solution is and always has been to turn Trondheim into a landfill, but that idea hasn't gained much traction.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 17 points 10 months ago

Couldn't it be just pilled up and eventually used to back fill the mine shafts?

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

They don't want to pay for that.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 19 points 10 months ago

And me building hope on the legend that Norway was a civilized land.

[-] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Norwegians are hillbillies with oil.

[-] sab@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Piled up where exactly?

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 months ago

Anywhere near the mines?

[-] sab@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

It's not exactly a deserted wasteland - it's not that easy to find somewhere to dump 170m tons of mining waste without affecting some ecosystem or another.

The fjords are pretty and symbolically nice, but the fact is that as long as there's a demand for minerals, they have to be dug from somewhere, and ecosystems are going to be affected by it. Moving the problem somewhere else doesn't solve anything.

It reminds me of that time we needed rocks for road construction in Norway, and we had decided all the mountains in the region were too precious to be destroyed for that kind of purpose. So we ended up buying vast quantities stones from China rather than using locally sourced products. Which is great - that way they can fuck up their nature instead.

If we don't want mining we just have to stop consuming. Moving problems out of sight doesn't solve anything.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

I really doubt that much rock can't find any other use except being dumped into the ocean.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

We could well pet rocks at cost

[-] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago

That would be the fjord then.

[-] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago

But if we fill the fjord instead it's extra building land.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 5 points 10 months ago

Then why not just use it to extend a coast line or build an island?

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Island of the mining waste. Sounds lovely. Maybe if people dig around they kids can find a severed human hand.

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 6 points 10 months ago

turn Trondheim into a landfill

You mean it isn't one already?

[-] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

😂 lol... Fuck Trondhjem!

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I came here because something didn't add up. On the surface this is an example of corporate excess, but do we have a reason why this was allowed to go ahead that isn't just speculation?

[-] Harpsist@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

So... Ragnarok for real life?

[-] SpiceDealer@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm not Norwegian and I'll probably come off as ignorant for asking this but is there anyway that I or anyone else can do stop to this from happening? I would like to feel that I made a difference instead of sitting on my ass behind a computer monitor.

[-] zik@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Some things just sound like a horrible idea - because they are a horrible idea.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

About time someone put those uppity fjords in their place.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

If they do it enough it won't technically be a fjord anymore. Just a beach you would not want to go to.

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