The Sami – who have inhabited these harsh northern latitudes since the last ice age and are the only indigenous people in the EU – fear that proposals to build a €2.9bn railway to the EU’s first Arctic port will provide mining and logging companies with the infrastructure they need to venture ever further into the wilder, untouched parts of Lapland.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/23/battle-save-lapland-want-to-build-railroad
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