"jump through pointless bureaucratic hoops?"
This here is the exact sentiment which is making the entire country quite angry.
These are not pointless bureaucratic hoops.
The entire voting population is quite worried of large multinational companies starting extractive projects that damage the environment, like mines.
These are the same processes that are put into place to stop say mining companies wantonly ravaging the landscape.
It's a canary of a large company attempting to avoid the process, which was put in place to protect the environment.
So everyone is now quite concerned that are the environmental protections really functional or not.
Basically everyone considers nature to be a public good in Finland. There is "every mans right" which allows you to camp and collect berries almost everywhere, for instance. Majority of the population has vacation homes in the forests next to lakes. A large mine that ignores environmental effects can thus damage both the public goods and the value of private properties quite a lot. I mean - that is the feeling the people have.
So it's not about "company doing something in their own property, big deal". It's about respecting safety mechanism to protect public goods.
And, that the government should keep everyone equal under the law.
No one is thinking only about few trees. Everyone is quite angry that a company could not follow due process without any backlash and worried what happens with, say the next large mine if the systems intended to protect the nature are not really working.
This here is the exact sentiment which is making the entire country quite angry.
These are not pointless bureaucratic hoops.
The entire voting population is quite worried of large multinational companies starting extractive projects that damage the environment, like mines.
These are the same processes that are put into place to stop say mining companies wantonly ravaging the landscape.
It's a canary of a large company attempting to avoid the process, which was put in place to protect the environment.
So everyone is now quite concerned that are the environmental protections really functional or not.
Basically everyone considers nature to be a public good in Finland. There is "every mans right" which allows you to camp and collect berries almost everywhere, for instance. Majority of the population has vacation homes in the forests next to lakes. A large mine that ignores environmental effects can thus damage both the public goods and the value of private properties quite a lot. I mean - that is the feeling the people have.
So it's not about "company doing something in their own property, big deal". It's about respecting safety mechanism to protect public goods.
And, that the government should keep everyone equal under the law.
No one is thinking only about few trees. Everyone is quite angry that a company could not follow due process without any backlash and worried what happens with, say the next large mine if the systems intended to protect the nature are not really working.