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Norway greenlights a copper mine with tailings to be dumped in Arctic fjord

The mine on the shores of Repparfjord will be the northernmost on mainland Europe.

By Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer December 4, 2019
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Despite protests from the Indigenous Sami people, local fishermen and environmental groups, Norway’s government has approved a controversial copper mining project on the edge of an Arctic fjord.

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