Hamina battery plant gets permit to discharge wastewater into Baltic Sea

THE GRANTING of an environmental permit has spawned a social movement against a battery material plant in Hamina, Southern Finland.

The Regional Administrative Agency (AVI) for Southern Finland on 12 February granted the plant an environmental permit for producing around 60,000 tonnes of chemicals a year. While the permit imposes limits on the amount of metals, nitrogen and particles that can be released into air and water, it allows the plant to discharge effectively untreated wastewater into the Baltic Sea.