TERVETULOA SOKLI ERÄMAANA -LIIKKEEN KOTISIVUILLE!

Savukosken Soklin alueelle suunnitellaan fosfaattikaivosta, jossa kaivettaisiin myös muita malmeja kuten uraania.

Toteutuessaan hanke estäisi kaiken muun toiminnan alueella, se muuttaisi pysyvästi alueen luontoa ja vesistöjä sekä vaarantaisi poronhoidon, matkailun, kalastuksen ja virkistyskäytön harjoittamisen alueella.

Soklin alue sijaitsee Itä-Lapissa, Urho Kekkosen kansallispuiston ja Värriön luonnonpuiston välissä. Sen läheisyydessä sijaitsevat Korvatunturi ja Tuntsan kuuluisa erämaa-alue sekä kolme Natura- alueverkostoon kuuluvaa kohdetta. Vaadimme, että alue säilytetään ainutlaatuisena erämaana, mikä se nyt on!

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 In English

Sokli is a deposit of phosphate and niobium ore, and it is owned by an international company Yara International ASA . The ore in the deposit has highly radioactive uramiun, radium and torium. Those substances and their poisonous and radioactive  by-products make mining extremely problematic, and the risks involved aren't estimated enough. The problems haven't been acknowledged in the decision-making process either. Mining is planned to be started in 2012.
Sokli is located in Savukoski, between the Urho Kekkonen National Park and the Värriö Nature Park. In the immediate proximity are also Korvatunturi and several Natura 2000 -protected areas. The mining area is over 70 square kilometres and the affected area stretches from the Finnish-Russian border zone to Kemijoki river. The immediate surrounding area is the most significant wilderness camping area of Eastern Lapland.
The Sokli project is located on a crucial migration and grazing area of reindeer of Kemin-Sompio, the biggest reindeer herdsman cooperatibe in Finland. The infrastructure of the mine would break the natural grazing cycle of the reindeers. The pollution caused by mining would endanger the health of the reindeers and reindeer herders. If the mine was actualised, it would destroy the traditional livelihood on the area, and would threaten the survival of hundreds of families on the area.
The headwaters of Kemijoki and Nuorttijoki rivers are located on the planned mining area. The watershed impacts of the mine will also reach Kemijärvi lake. The mining operation would pollute and eutrophicate the Sotajoki and Nuortti watersheds, which are famous of their trouts and graylings .
The ingredients of a catastrophe are close, if the radioactive substances happen to contaminate the nearby areas and the watersheds of the area. It would be a deadly hit both to the reindeer husbandry and to the gathering of natural products (such as the livelihoods of picking berries and mushrooms) on the area.

Sokli as a wilderness area -civil movement

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