TLG - Media, page-11800

"An important part of how we try to work with the project is to plan the work around how they work." - From Martin Phillips.

The strongest example of this is obviously mining only 6 months of the year during the reindeer herding off season. From what I've seen, making concessions like this go a long way in receiving permit approval from the court. Look at Kaunis Iron for example (another Wikland case). They compromised by reducing their production plan from 20 million to 10 million tons of ore per year "something that the Land and Environment Court cites as a reason for approving the environmental permit. The increase was thus not as large as the company initially wished."

Talga choosing to be flexible in this way also takes ammunition away from the Sami's objections. "Reindeer management companies would cease to exist" - How can this be so if the mine isn't even operating at the time?