12-08-2018, 02:30 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/...in-the-way
The world’s biggest iron ore tunnel mine is about to swallow the Swedish city of Kiruna. The company’s answer? Move the city
The crack appeared a few years ago, and has been creeping towards the town of Kiruna ever since.
“The mines are underneath us,” says Göran Cars. It’s early afternoon but the sun is already setting behind the mountain, colouring the clouds and outlining the town’s most prominent feature: two huge smokestacks. “And you can see the direction of the cracks – coming from the mine, and going straight up to the city centre.”
The mine, Kiirunavaara, is the reason this Swedish town of roughly 20,000 people deep in northern Lapland exists at all. It is one the world’s largest underground iron ore mines, and it dominates both economically and visually, the smokestacks sending up twin plumes of black smoke from the denuded mountain like a kind of Arctic Mordor.
This sounds like a very ambitious project. However, they've known about this danger for a long time (the planning for this move began in 2004) - so, it seems that they know what they're doing .
Of course, if all goes well, I suspect we'll see it being re-applied to coastal towns that are in danger of being inundated by rising sea levels .
The world’s biggest iron ore tunnel mine is about to swallow the Swedish city of Kiruna. The company’s answer? Move the city
The crack appeared a few years ago, and has been creeping towards the town of Kiruna ever since.
“The mines are underneath us,” says Göran Cars. It’s early afternoon but the sun is already setting behind the mountain, colouring the clouds and outlining the town’s most prominent feature: two huge smokestacks. “And you can see the direction of the cracks – coming from the mine, and going straight up to the city centre.”
The mine, Kiirunavaara, is the reason this Swedish town of roughly 20,000 people deep in northern Lapland exists at all. It is one the world’s largest underground iron ore mines, and it dominates both economically and visually, the smokestacks sending up twin plumes of black smoke from the denuded mountain like a kind of Arctic Mordor.
This sounds like a very ambitious project. However, they've known about this danger for a long time (the planning for this move began in 2004) - so, it seems that they know what they're doing .
Of course, if all goes well, I suspect we'll see it being re-applied to coastal towns that are in danger of being inundated by rising sea levels .
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