It was on March 14 earlier this year that the Land and Environmental Court announced that the state would compensate Nordkalk with SEK 625 million for the lack of lime mining on Gotland.
The background is that both Nordkalk and SMA Mineral received permission for quarrying in 2014 in the lower instance of the Land and Environmental Court. The following year, the legal camp changed after a government decision made the Stora Vikers and Bästeträsk areas EU nature reserves, so-called Natura 2000 areas.
According to documents from the Kammarkollegiet, the state is now appealing the verdict and wants the matter to be heard in the Land and Environmental Court of Appeal.