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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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[–] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (16 children)

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 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They don't want to pay for that.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Norwegians are hillbillies with oil.

[–] sab@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] sab@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago

We could well pet rocks at cost

[–] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

That would be the fjord then.

[–] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

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

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