INDIGENOUS RIGHTS TO DEFEND LAND AND TRADITIONAL ACTIVITIES
One of the largest remaining unexploited iron ore deposits in Europe is the Kallak Iron Deposit in the province of Norrbotten in northern Sweden, where a significant Sámi population is located. Since 2011, the UK-based company, Beowulf Mining, has begun a large campaign for extraction in northern an...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:oai:doaj.org/article:106da5551f494f099cf690da63548ec0 2023-05-15T17:44:46+02:00 INDIGENOUS RIGHTS TO DEFEND LAND AND TRADITIONAL ACTIVITIES Apostolos Tsiouvalas Margherita Paola Poto 2018-07-01 https://doi.org/10.29293/rdfg.v5i01.211 https://doaj.org/article/106da5551f494f099cf690da63548ec0 en es fr it pt eng spa fre ita por Centro Universitário FG 2447-6536 doi:10.29293/rdfg.v5i01.211 https://doaj.org/article/106da5551f494f099cf690da63548ec0 undefined Revista de Direito da Faculdade Guanambi, Vol 5, Iss 01, Pp 13-28 (2018) geo hist Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2018 fttriple https://doi.org/10.29293/rdfg.v5i01.211 2023-01-22T19:35:52Z One of the largest remaining unexploited iron ore deposits in Europe is the Kallak Iron Deposit in the province of Norrbotten in northern Sweden, where a significant Sámi population is located. Since 2011, the UK-based company, Beowulf Mining, has begun a large campaign for extraction in northern and southern Kallak. However, the Sámi of the region, together with environmentalists and non-Sámi individuals have drastically expressed their opposition blocking with various ways the processes. The Sámi being aware of the environmental risk have concerns about their ability to drive reindeer across the land, and the impact Beowulf’s operations are likely to have on the reindeer migratory patterns. Nowadays, seven years after the initial application for licensing, the approval of the application is still pending and Beowulf is pressing more and more the Swedish authorities for a final response in order to start extracting. Only the County Administrative Board of Norrbotten, despite its initial consent, still advocates for Sámi and their reindeer refusing to issue licensing for the British company. Accordingly, this article was designed as a descriptive study of the legal framework of the implementation of this endeavour addressing the legal arguments of both sides as they derive from a qualitative study of official documents, environmental reports, and relative articles of scholars. Concluding, the article illustrates the gaps of legal protection of indigenous land-rights in Sweden presenting their vulnerability to such kind of challenges. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden Norrbotten Unknown Endeavour ENVELOPE(162.000,162.000,-76.550,-76.550) Beowulf ENVELOPE(161.800,161.800,-77.633,-77.633) Revista de Direito da Faculdade Guanambi 5 01 13 28 |
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One of the largest remaining unexploited iron ore deposits in Europe is the Kallak Iron Deposit in the province of Norrbotten in northern Sweden, where a significant Sámi population is located. Since 2011, the UK-based company, Beowulf Mining, has begun a large campaign for extraction in northern and southern Kallak. However, the Sámi of the region, together with environmentalists and non-Sámi individuals have drastically expressed their opposition blocking with various ways the processes. The Sámi being aware of the environmental risk have concerns about their ability to drive reindeer across the land, and the impact Beowulf’s operations are likely to have on the reindeer migratory patterns. Nowadays, seven years after the initial application for licensing, the approval of the application is still pending and Beowulf is pressing more and more the Swedish authorities for a final response in order to start extracting. Only the County Administrative Board of Norrbotten, despite its initial consent, still advocates for Sámi and their reindeer refusing to issue licensing for the British company. Accordingly, this article was designed as a descriptive study of the legal framework of the implementation of this endeavour addressing the legal arguments of both sides as they derive from a qualitative study of official documents, environmental reports, and relative articles of scholars. Concluding, the article illustrates the gaps of legal protection of indigenous land-rights in Sweden presenting their vulnerability to such kind of challenges. |
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