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Maria Rautanen questioned the transportation of foreign waste to Finland for energy production. She referred to information from Kaleva, which indicated that nearly 50,000 tons of waste had been brought to Oulu for incineration at Oulu Energy and Syklon facilities since 2021. According to her, waste had even been transported from the outskirts of a landfill in Rome and from the shores of the Arctic Ocean. Rautanen wrote that according to Kaleva, nearly a third of the imports had occurred with figures that had been mistakenly approved by the Finnish Environment Institute. She demanded a transparent investigation into the permit errors. Rautanen criticized the downsizing of Finland's domestic energy production, particularly the reduction of peat use due to taxation and emissions trading costs. According to her, Finnish contractors and energy entrepreneurs had ceased operations, machines had been sold, and expertise in the sector was disappearing as energy was produced by importing waste from thousands of kilometers away. Rautanen called for open life cycle assessments to justify the import of foreign waste, taking into account transport by road and sea, combustion emissions, ash, waste impurities, and domestic fuels replaced by imported waste. She also demanded information about the quality of the waste brought to Finland, its monitoring, and the effects of combustion on flue gases, heavy metals, and fine particles. Rautanen believed that Finland's energy supply should fundamentally rely on domestic raw materials, local labor, and supply security. She found it difficult to accept that waste transported from Rome was used for energy production while the use of domestic peat had been reduced, and she questioned whether this constituted sensible circular economy practices. https://t.co/2CjRydkxAO #ilmasto #energia #kiertotalous (translated)

The extensive logging related to Google's data center projects has raised concerns among authorities and, according to the head of the Permit and Supervision Agency, has resulted in an exceptional case, as the logging has begun before the required environmental impact assessment. #Google #ympäristövahinko #datakeskus (translated)

According to Environment Minister Sari Multala, Google may avoid direct penalties regarding the logging of data center construction sites, as current legislation does not allow for direct sanctions for neglecting environmental impact assessments, even though the government is planning legislative changes to tighten the rules. #Google #datakeskus #ympäristövaikutukset (translated)

Petra Nyqvist wrote that there were no penalties in the law for Google's violation. She dismissed the idea that it was a matter of damage and estimated that Google had probably calculated in advance that it would not harm the company. According to Nyqvist, lawyers kept the matter updated. She also criticized the country's leadership as indifferent and lacking understanding of environmental issues, stating that this was already known worldwide. Nyqvist demanded a complete turnaround in environmental policy in the next government. #Google #laki #ympäristö (translated)

The technology giant Google will not face sanctions for the allegedly illegal logging at the data center construction sites in Muhos and Kajaani, says the Minister of Environment and Climate, Sari Multala from the National Coalition Party, to Uutissuomalainen. #Google #datakeskus #ympäristö (translated)

Sture Fjäder wrote that Helsinki, according to him, bans all advertisements that use fossil fuels. He criticized the city council's bans and stated that he was glad to have moved away from Helsinki. #lentomainontakiellot https://t.co/LKwKKDcned #Helsinki #mainonta #ympäristö (translated)

Tanja Aidanjuuri wrote that the plan in Helsinki to ban advertising of fossil fuels could, according to her, cost the city nearly 100 million euros in advertising revenue. She criticized the proposal as unnecessary and absurd and listed as examples of potentially restricted advertising gasoline and diesel cars, flights, cruises, synthetic clothing, plastic products, and fossil fuels. Aidanjuuri described that the Greens in Vantaa could, in her opinion, follow the same line and that advertising would then practically be limited to, for example, veggie sausages, rainbow flags, and new mosques. She also pointed out that taxpayer money would be used for the handling of the matter. Aidanjuuri cited a proposal stating that the advertising ban would be investigated in the preparation of the next outdoor advertising agreement for Helsinki's public areas and that the advertising agreements of Urban Traffic Ltd would also be taken into account. The assessment would examine, among other things, the legal boundaries of the ban, its climate and environmental impacts, effects on the city's economy, the city's own communication and marketing, as well as the media landscape. The proposal also mentioned the possibility of examining advertising's ethical principles more broadly and limiting outdoor advertising from entities considered to violate human rights and particularly polluting industries. #Helsinki #ilmastonmuutos #mainonta (translated)

Suvi-Anne Siimes wondered about the city council's decision. She noted that the city manages its own advertising spaces, but found it peculiar that the people in the city were treated, according to her, as subjects while the decision-makers made study trips abroad using fossil fuels. #kaupunkipolitiikka #ympäristö #kestävyys (translated)

Mats Uotila wrote that the representatives of the Left Alliance, the Greens, and the SDP had returned by plane from a study trip to Vienna shortly before the Helsinki city council's vote and supported a ban that would prevent, for example, the display of airplane advertisements on the city's billboards. Uotila considered this action hypocritical. #Helsinki #politiikka #ympäristö (translated)

The leaders of the data center municipalities commented on the error in Google's operations, which led to the suspension of the environmental impact assessment, but they believe that the projects will still progress in the future. #Google #Datakeskus #Ympäristövaikutukset (translated)

Jukka Lepikkö wrote that European bureaucracy would require construction work to be suspended for the duration of environmental impact assessments. According to him, work would resume a couple of years and several rounds of appeals later, once the flying squirrels or other similar species had been saved again. https://t.co/pXcszeA0A5 #byrokratia #ympäristö #rakentaminen (translated)

Rami Kurimo described open drug dealing in Puhos. He wrote that families with children did not want to come to the restaurant and that drug dealing had brought violence and fights with it. Kurimo asked if the environment sounded safe and mentioned that he would leave for HS. https://t.co/ebedmTRAQW #huumeet #väkivalta #turvallisuus (translated)