At the same time, the company must appeal the old application to the Supreme Court. It was rejected late last year because it was deemed not to meet the requirements for consultation.
Now LKAB will therefore have to start over with a completely new application.
“Since we are starting over anyway, this is no longer about winning to have our application from 2018 tried, but solely about a fight for reasonable and efficient permit processes where the courts’ application is a decisive function” writes Niklas Johansson, Director of Communications and Climate , LKAB in a press release.