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I can honestly say I have never seen a clump of trees covered in soooooo much snow even in a picture let alone real life LOL
Sweden, home of TLGs graphite mine(s)
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I regularly visit these two pages out of general interest in this sector. As a reminder because I haven't mentioned them for a while.
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My favorite game is 'The Long Dark' which can be adequately described as a Canada simulator after civilization has ended. However, even there, with snow everywhere, its not like this. I have a lot of respect for the Sami that live in this climate. Unfortunately, they are throwing that chaos tantrum towards us, which makes it hard for me to actually express that feeling towards them.
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I can imagine that this is not unusual for the citizens of Norrbotten. The Swedish record for cold temperatures was recently broken in Vittangi. It was so cold that it even made the news in a major German newspaper.
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I was reading yesterday that Russia had a record year for oil sales despite sanctions by selling to China. You're probably not far off the truth. China currently accounts for 60% of EV sales worldwide, I'm not sure their demand for petrol is exploding. Unless they're stockpiling for a rainy day...
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Visit Lulea!
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I was intuitively drawn there. I only ever think about food, my stomach growls.
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but the message doesn't really fit with the beautiful picture:
16 years in prison for murder in VittangiA 45-year-old man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for murder in the village of Lainio outside Vittangi in Kiruna municipality, GĂ€llivare District Court has announced.
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Spring weather
"Power back on in icy Puoltsa: "The happiness is great"
The nearly 800 households in western Kiruna that were without power for several hours on Wednesday have now had their power restored, NSD reports.Mats Sidmalm, living in a chilly Puoltsa where the temperature was as low as 41 degrees below zero, is happy that the power is back since 16:00.
- The happiness is great in the northern parts of the Kalix river valley.
The cold snap in northern Sweden has paralysed public transport. Both trains and buses are cancelled in several places in Norrbotten, writes TT.
- If you stand on these long lines, the buses cool down quite quickly. So it is simply for safety reasons, says Ingela Karlsson, acting CEO of LĂ€nstrafiken Norrbotten.
The local newspaper NSD urges residents to endure the cold. At the beginning of next week, temperatures can rise by 20 degrees in one day, the newspaper writes."
Strömmen tillbaka i iskalla Puoltsa: âLyckan Ă€r storâ
De nÀra 800 hushÄll i vÀstra Kiruna som under flera timmar pÄ onsdagen var utan ström har nu fÄtt strömmen tillbaka, rapporterar NSD.
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"Huge billions are being invested as industry and Hertsön in LuleÄ grow
Between SEK 70 and 80 billion will be invested in LuleÄ Industrial Park.
On Hertsön there will be a new school, a new bathhouse and a new residential area. Large sums are involved when LuleÄ is now gearing up.
There are several industrial establishments that will take place in LuleÄ in the coming years. These include an artificial fertiliser factory and a battery anode factory at the Hertsö field.
LKAB is investing SEK 10 billion in an industrial park on Svartön and SSAB is making the transition ."
Enorma miljardbelopp satsas nÀr industrin och Hertsön i LuleÄ vÀxer
Mellan 70 till 80 miljarder ska investeras i LuleÄ industripark. PÄ Hertsön blir det en ny skola, ett nytt badhus och ett nytt bostadsomrÄde. Det Àr stora belopp det handlar om nÀr LuleÄ nu vÀxlar upp.
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The picture reminds me of a bad car journey here in Germany in a low mountain range on the autobahn. It was snowing so heavily, as in the picture, and the snow was so sticky that everything was just white, the road, the crash barriers, all the signs, all the vegetation like trees and bushes - everything was just white. Absolutely no contours. I was driving slower than walking pace with the clutch grinding. Whenever the car started to lean and jerked a little, I knew that I had begun to left the road and I had to steer in the opposite direction. It took me hours to get out of there again and it was gradually getting dark.
Behind me was a queue of cars orientating themselves along my lane, like ducks in a row. I'll never forget that.
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All those reindeer..................................not enough rifles................................LOL
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LoL
I think as soon as it gets warm enough here to barbecue, in a month at the latest, I'll give reindeer meat a try. Just out of curiosity and without thinking about industry.
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How about bow hunting?
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EU rules crucial for business
LULEà The EU's regulations are important for Swedish export companies, and how the rules are applied in Sweden is also important. It was presented at an EU debate with four business representatives and four EU politicians in LuleÄ on Monday.08 April 2024
Swedish Business organized a debate on the EU's future on the theme: "The green transition". The business representatives agreed that EU rules are important for companies' competitiveness and that the EU is a very important market. There was also concern that state aid had become increasingly common, something the EU was supposed to prevent.
How EU rules are applied in Sweden is also important, and that the permit processes are fast, predictable and transparent.
Per-Erik Lindvall, chairman of the board of Talga which wants to mine graphite in Vittangi and build a battery anode factory in LuleÄ, welcomed the EU's new Critical Raw Materials Act, but worried about how it will be implemented in Sweden.
- It enables faster processes, prioritized projects must be given a fast track. But it has not yet been implemented in Swedish legislation, says Per-Erik Lindvall.
According to Per-Erik Lindvall, it is also important to deal with China in a constructive way when it comes to the rules of the game for minerals. He also raised the most crucial question of all:
- The most important thing is to ensure that Ukraine wins the war, answered Per-Erik Lindvall when asked what is most important.
For SSAB, it is crucial that state aid does not destroy a fair market.
- We are interested in a fair market. We finance new steel mills in Oxelösund and LuleÄ with our own cash. Other actors in other countries receive state support, said Christina Friborg, director of sustainability at SSAB.
She received approval from the forestry company Holmen's CEO Henrik Sjölund:
- We should not have state aid in the EU. It is a competition in state aid right now.
Also participating was PiteĂ„-based Sunpines CEO David Ăquist, who spoke of the EU as an important market for the company's products, which are renewable fuels made from residual products from the pulp industry.
Four politicians who are candidates in the EU elections on June 9 participated: Lisa NĂ„bo (S), Anna Maria Corazza Bildt (L), Emma Wiesner (C) and Tomas Brandberg (SD).
They commented on the input from the business representatives and debated goals and goal fulfillment, the EU's bureaucracy, that it is a problem that 27 member states have their own regulations, that state aid is a bad exception right now, that it is important that emissions trading is regulated and keeps the line, that it is often it is business that drives development.
- We politicians must keep up, said Anna Maria Corazza Bildt."
EU-regler avgörande för nÀringslivet -
Svenskt NÀringsliv anordnade en debatt om EU:s framtid pÄ temat: "Den gröna omstÀllningen". NÀringslivsrepresentanterna var eniga om att EU:s regler Àr vikti...
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Indeed, it is not yet clear how the rules are implemented. For example whether the CRMA time limit includes the appeals or not. I don't think it can as it's a rather different legislative process. At this stage, we have spend almost as long in the appeal process as in the original permit. If the CRMA only applies to the original permit but does not include the appeal, it can help maybe 50%. Except if the appeals cannot block the development of the mine. Please remember that talga appealed the original decision that the mine development has to wait for the appeals to be finalized. THAT legislation probably can be changed. And I hope it will, for the sake of our expansion.
Perhaps the EU and member states like Sweden could charge a hefty fee to appeal such decisions. And not be a free ride. That would be nice to discourage appellants wanting to send companies down the girgler and/or make it unprofitable/difficult to mine (not verbatim, but implied by the Orange lawyer in her silly post).
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Yesterday the Talga Lulea team had a visit from politicians:
"I get a little dizzy when I listen to you, it's such an extreme social transformation you're working on.
Oskar Hederyd from LuleÄ Business Region talks about the plans to the Center Party's party leader Muharrem Demirok.
On hand to meet the party leader were Robert Eriksson, Project Manager LuleÄ Industrial Park, Oskar Hederyd, LuleÄ Business Region, Carl Wangel, SSAB, and David Högnelid, LKAB. The programme also included a visit to Talga's pilot plant.
During the visit to the House of Science, Demikrok was given a brief presentation by everyone on site about their respective parts of the project, but also how the whole fits together and that the entire value chain is necessary for everything to work.
"What you're doing is hugely impressive, it's several levels above normal. With a complexity that is so great that it is difficult to grasp. An extreme societal transformation is underway. This is where the state needs to step in more actively, for sure. It will take time, but it must be resolved politically so that it happens, says Muharrem Demirok.
David Högnelid talked about LKAB's journey, about how their iron ore is suitable for the production of fossil-free sponge iron via the HYBRIT project. But also about the new circular industrial park that will be built in LuleÄ to extract phosphorus for fertilizers and rare earth elements from the residual products of iron ore production.
Carl Wangel from SSAB joined the conversation and they both highlighted the importance of the Iron Ore Railway for the industrial system to function in the near future. That new investments and a major overhaul of how the agencies work are required to create faster processes that better meet today's needs.
During his stay in LuleÄ, Demirok visited Talga's pilot plant. Pictured from left: Oskar Hederyd, LuleÄ Business Region, Arne NykÀnen, (C) group leader, Emma SjÀlin, Talga, Muharram Demirok, (C) party leader and Stefan Sandberg, Talga.
They also highlighted that the industries have taken initiatives to collaborate in new ways, where they want increased support from the state to find more solutions of the same caliber as the power distribution model that is now called the "LuleÄ model" where Svenska kraftnÀt after round-table discussions changed its way of working.
"The whole world is looking for the answer that you have found here, the green industrial transition," says Muharrem Demirok when he has received more facts about each industrial project's part in the whole, and continues:
"I understand that it all starts with the ore deposits. That the Ore Railway is a prerequisite. We've been in a situation now where we've been living on investments made 50 years ago or older. Now we need to make a major change. We need to raise the framework for the Swedish Transport Administration, quite simply free up more capital to catch up with the needs that exist. It has to happen throughout the country, we cannot continue to pit different projects against each other. There is so much to learn from you for the rest of the country, you are in the process of developing a completely new model for social development here."
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And I get dizzy when I look at party politics, election results and the government constellation, as well as the previous political history in Sweden. I just wanted to see whether this party leader is part of the opposition or the government. The former is the case.
New model for social development: "The world is looking for the answer you have found"
The Center Party's party leader Muharrem Demirok visited LuleÄ on Monday to meet some of the actors involved in the LuleÄ Industrial Park project, and he was impressed by what he heard:"I get a little dizzy when I listen to you, it's such an extreme social transformation you're working on.
Oskar Hederyd from LuleÄ Business Region talks about the plans to the Center Party's party leader Muharrem Demirok.
On hand to meet the party leader were Robert Eriksson, Project Manager LuleÄ Industrial Park, Oskar Hederyd, LuleÄ Business Region, Carl Wangel, SSAB, and David Högnelid, LKAB. The programme also included a visit to Talga's pilot plant.
During the visit to the House of Science, Demikrok was given a brief presentation by everyone on site about their respective parts of the project, but also how the whole fits together and that the entire value chain is necessary for everything to work.
"What you're doing is hugely impressive, it's several levels above normal. With a complexity that is so great that it is difficult to grasp. An extreme societal transformation is underway. This is where the state needs to step in more actively, for sure. It will take time, but it must be resolved politically so that it happens, says Muharrem Demirok.
David Högnelid talked about LKAB's journey, about how their iron ore is suitable for the production of fossil-free sponge iron via the HYBRIT project. But also about the new circular industrial park that will be built in LuleÄ to extract phosphorus for fertilizers and rare earth elements from the residual products of iron ore production.
Carl Wangel from SSAB joined the conversation and they both highlighted the importance of the Iron Ore Railway for the industrial system to function in the near future. That new investments and a major overhaul of how the agencies work are required to create faster processes that better meet today's needs.
During his stay in LuleÄ, Demirok visited Talga's pilot plant. Pictured from left: Oskar Hederyd, LuleÄ Business Region, Arne NykÀnen, (C) group leader, Emma SjÀlin, Talga, Muharram Demirok, (C) party leader and Stefan Sandberg, Talga.
They also highlighted that the industries have taken initiatives to collaborate in new ways, where they want increased support from the state to find more solutions of the same caliber as the power distribution model that is now called the "LuleÄ model" where Svenska kraftnÀt after round-table discussions changed its way of working.
"The whole world is looking for the answer that you have found here, the green industrial transition," says Muharrem Demirok when he has received more facts about each industrial project's part in the whole, and continues:
"I understand that it all starts with the ore deposits. That the Ore Railway is a prerequisite. We've been in a situation now where we've been living on investments made 50 years ago or older. Now we need to make a major change. We need to raise the framework for the Swedish Transport Administration, quite simply free up more capital to catch up with the needs that exist. It has to happen throughout the country, we cannot continue to pit different projects against each other. There is so much to learn from you for the rest of the country, you are in the process of developing a completely new model for social development here."
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- Read more about LuleÄ Industrial Park
External link. - Read more about LKAB
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- Read more about SSAB
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- Read more about Talga
Ny modell för samhĂ€llsutveckling: âVĂ€rlden söker efter det svar som ni hittatâ
Centerpartiets partiledare Muharrem Demirok besökte under mĂ„ndagen LuleĂ„ för att trĂ€ffa nĂ„gra av aktörerna som Ă€r involverade i projektet LuleĂ„ Industripark, och han var imponerad av det han fick höra: â Jag fĂ„r lite lĂ€tt svindel nĂ€r jag lyssnar pĂ„ er, det Ă€r en sĂ„ extrem samhĂ€llsomstĂ€llning ni...
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And I get dizzy when I look at party politics, election results and the government constellation, as well as the previous political history in Sweden. I just wanted to see whether this party leader is part of the opposition or the government. The former is the case.
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I'm at a loss for words for now. I need to catch my breath. Follow the posts to above to the whole picture of this disaster. Just crazy.
"Stop for contractor to the Hertsö field - for the fourth time
Once again, LuleÄ municipality's procurement of a contractor for the Hertsö field is stopped. This means that work on setting up the new industrial area will be delayed.
The project manager for LuleÄ Industripark, Robert Eriksson, states that the municipality will take back the procurement in order to conduct a new tender review.According to the original schedule, which has broken down several times, the contractor awarded the contract for the Hertsö field should have started work in June last year. However, a series of appeals have thrown off the schedule. The municipality's tender has been appealed several times by the construction companies BDX and Nyab, which are competing to prepare the land for the Hertsö Field, part of Lulea.
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Sweden at its best!
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Now read that again.)
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Sweden, home of TLGs graphite mine(s)
another nice impressive picture from the same page đ„¶â I can honestly say I have never seen a clump of trees covered in soooooo much snow even in a picture let alone real life LOL
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