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Petteri Vaara criticized the government's decision to grant a 150 million euro tax support to Anglo American's subsidiary, Sakati, through Business Finland. According to him, the value of the metal deposits located in Viiankiaapa in Sodankylä, a Natura 2000 area, was tens of billions of euros: about 15 billion euros for copper and over ten billion euros for nickel, gold, and palladium. Vaara believed that the mining company would receive the extracted metals and the vast majority of the economic benefits, while the risks of the project would remain with nature and taxpayers. Vaara wrote that the state was preparing and partly funding mining projects but handed the responsibility for leading them to multinational companies. He also criticized the National Coalition Party member of parliament, Pia Kauma, who stated that protected nature calmed and comforted people, but metals were needed for batteries and electrical cables. Vaara mentioned that Sakati had met with several ministers, their assistants, and members of parliament and had used consultants from the law firm Borenius. Vaara claimed that 79 percent of Finns opposed mining in nature conservation areas. According to him, the government was pushing for the project to gain the status of an EU strategic raw materials initiative to expedite the permitting process. He also criticized Anglo American's plans to purchase old-growth forests in Inari and to restore drained wetlands to replace Viiankiaapa. Vaara referred to a statement from the Permit and Supervision Agency, which indicated that the actions proposed by the company were insufficient to mitigate the environmental harm of the project as required by the nature directive. https://t.co/spQ6nEoAhG #Suomi #Luonto #Kaivosteollisuus (translated)

Petra Nyqvist stated that she had been asked to assess the veracity of Anter Yasa's writing, but according to her, Yasa had prevented her from doing so. Nyqvist described the writing as aggressive and false, noting that, in her opinion, the police do not declare anyone unaccountable. Nyqvist said that the police had called her one summer and said that Yasa was trying to make a criminal complaint against her, but there was no evidence of a crime. According to Nyqvist, the police intended to ask Yasa for more information, but the matter did not progress. She suspected that Yasa had attempted to make another criminal complaint against her but said that she had never received information about it—or that the accusation was fabricated. Nyqvist denied receiving money from mosques and stated that she was doing expert work related to her education in nature and the environment. She said that Yasa's writings could lead to a criminal case, but doubted that Yasa would be able to pay damages or fines. #valehtelu #totuus #poliisi (translated)

The author criticized the fact that waste was coming to Oulu from as far as Rome and claimed that Google was carrying out extensive logging without permits. According to him, Finland was about to become a developing country in terms of environmental protection. #ympäristö #luonto #kestävyys #FI #IT (translated)

Reijo Tossavainen wrote that Yle had decided to cancel the series Eränkävijät, which he described as a Finnish nature-themed program about the realities of everyday life. According to him, the series was not artificial reality entertainment. Tossavainen pondered the reason for the cancellation of the popular program and assessed that, in his opinion, it did not fit Yle's red-green agenda. #Eränkävijät #suomalainen #luonto (translated)

This autumn's mosquito phenomenon, in which especially summer mosquitoes have been active exceptionally late, is causing wonder among researchers and is probably due to favorable weather conditions that have allowed their development into larvae. #hyttyset #luonto #syksy (translated)

This is no longer just a political blunder, but probably the most humiliating national failure in the history of Finland's industry. This analysis reveals black on white how totally and blindly the Finnish state leadership has sold the interests of its own citizens in front of the marketing department of Silicon Valley. Let's break down this "sleight of hand" into three devastating facts that make the government's actions completely inexcusable. First of all, despite all the prime minister-level hype, promises, and the liturgy of the green transition, the outcome is harsh. As a result of Google's massive investments, no new electricity production is being built in Finland—zero megawatts. The company's marketing department worded it so cleverly that the government, desperately thirsty for economic growth, swallowed the bait completely baffled. The leadership was smilingly taken in front of cameras as a guarantor for a project that will not bring a single new watt to the Finnish grid. The second issue is the hijacking of national base power. This is the real, chilling bomb of the news. Since no new electricity will come, where will these massive data centers draw their power? The answer: from our nuclear power. The analysis reveals that as much as 500 megawatts of Finland's nuclear power capacity is dedicated exclusively to Google until 2050. This nuclear power is not just any electricity. It is precisely that stable, weather-independent base power that is vital for Finland's price stability and security of supply. The government is thus surrendering half a gigawatt of infrastructure intended to safeguard Finnish citizens during cold days to a multinational monopoly for the next quarter century. Thirdly, the master has definitively become a servant. When 500 megawatts of stable nuclear power is tied to Google's inflexible use, and no new capacity is brought in, the mathematical equation is devastating for the Finnish consumer. When a calm cold spell strikes in January, our electricity grid will lack that 500-megawatt lifesaver. It is dedicated to AI computation, and the ordinary Finnish citizen will pay for it with horrendous spikes in market electricity prices and increased transmission fees from Fingrid. The Finnish government allowed a multinational company to blind itself with platitudes and let a foreign entity walk straight into the national switchboard. This is not an investment in Finland. This is a hostile resource grab, which the country's own leadership blessed with a smile, sacrificing the energy security and purchasing power of Finns at the altar of the company's marketing trick. In democracy, there is one simple and ruthless rule: if the highest leadership of the state cannot defend the interests of its own people, it must step aside. Looking at this chain of events and the facts revealed by Talouselämä, the demand for Prime Minister Orpo's resignation is no longer just political shouting. It is the only logical conclusion in a situation where the head of government has shown a total lack of judgment in securing national infrastructure and the economy. The prime minister's job is to be the master in his own country. His task is to sit at the negotiating table, look the world's richest companies in the eye, and say: "This is our grid, our nuclear power, and our nature. You will pay for the infrastructure, you will build the new electricity, and you will pay the royalties here. Otherwise, you can take your servers elsewhere." If the prime minister is not capable of this—if he is so desperate that he can be led by a marketing department's word games like a measuring cup—he does not have the backbone that leading Finland requires in this global squeeze. Then there is only one right action: hand the keys back to the people and resign. #Suomi #politiikka #energiapolitiikka (translated)

– Kun satelliittikuvista tarkastelimme näitä yli 300 hehtaarin hakkuita, näyttää siltä, että kaavan mukaisista säästettävistä luontokohteistakin neljä on nyt jo kyllä jyrätty, Suomen Luonnonsuojeluliiton puheenjohtaja Hanna Halmeenpää kertoo MTV Uutisille. #Google #ympäristö #Muhos

Tällainen tekoälyalarmismi herättää ihmisissä ahdistusta tai paniikkia. Uhkien mittasuhteita suurennetaan todellisuuteen nähden. "Kansanedustaja alkaa itkemään kesken haastattelun, koska tekoälyn uhkakuva on niin synkkä." Kansanedustajilla ja medialla pitäisi olla jonkinlainen järki ja vastuu käsitellä asioita kokonaisuutena, jossa riskien lisäksi kerrotaan myös mahdollisuuksista. Tekoälyn suhteen riskit ovat pienet. Niistä voi ja pitääkin puhua. Mahdollisuudet taas ovat lähes rajattomat. Yleinen keskustelu etenkin tällä viikolla on kääntynyt lähes pelkästään riskeihin. Mediasta informaationsa saava ihminen (eli valtaosa ihmisistä) menettää kuvan todellisuudesta, jos mediassa kerrotaan vain toinen puoli asiasta. Ja vielä tavalla, joka näyttää siltä, että sen on tarkoitus herättää pelkoa. Jos tekoälystä halutaan maalata oikea kokonaiskuva, myös seuraavista positiivisista teemoista pitäisi tulla jatkuvasti juttuja negatiivisten rinnalle: Tekoäly voi auttaa parantamaan syöpiä ja harvinaissairauksia, ehkäisemään pandemioita, pidentämään terveitä elinvuosia, kehittämään puhdasta ja halpaa energiaa, mullistamaan akku- ja materiaaliteknologian, turvaamaan ruoan ja puhtaan veden saatavuutta, hillitsemään ilmastonmuutosta, suojelemaan luontoa, tuomaan yksilöllisen koulutuksen ja terveydenhuollon kaikkien ulottuville, poistamaan kielimuureja, parantamaan esteettömyyttä, vähentämään liikennekuolemia, automatisoimaan vaarallisia ja raskaita töitä, nopeuttamaan tieteellisiä läpimurtoja sekä lisäämään vaurautta ja aikaa läheisille. Kuten voi huomata, listassa on paljon asioita, joista vihreiden kansanedustaja tai Helsingin Sanomat voisivat varmasti mielellään kertoa seuraajilleen. #tekoäly #analyysi #mahdollisuudet

Olipa kerran…. …maailman kaunein kansa, maailman ehkä turvallisin valtio, maailman ehkä puhtain luonto, ”moraalin supervallaksi” itseään kutsunut kaikkein edistyksellisin maa. Mitä tapahtui? Demografia löi demokratian ⁉️ 🇸🇪 Ruotsin kohtalon pitäisi herättää kaikki länsimaat pohtimaan: MITÄ HELVETTIÄ NE OIKEIN ANTOIVAT ITSELLEEN TAPAHTUA? #Ruotsi #demokratia #yhteiskunta