"Serious shortcomings have become revealed even in such a developed and well-organized country as Finland," she told a government conference on socially responsible mining in Espoo. "These have resulted in extensive and very serious environmental problems in the mining sector."
The Lapland boom has brought strong objections from environmentalists who said the region's fragile sub-arctic wetland ecosystem could be destroyed by toxic chemicals used in the mining process.
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