Notification of Gunnery lingers for years – Dagens Industri

Notification of Gunnery lingers for years

                  2015-08-01 21:23
             

Environmental testing of the military firing range has become protracted cases. The trial of 19 firing ranges have been appealed to the environmental and land court, and of them 17 are waiting on the government’s decision. The total processing time of these 17 cases, eight years, writes Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. Seven of the applications are from in 2005.

It is awfully long processing times, says Folke Borgh, a lawyer at the Swedish Armed Forces’ environmental assessment unit, told the newspaper.

Environment Ms Åsa Romson (MP) recognizes that the pace must increase

The Minister of Defence and I agree that we need to have an environmental works and can go faster.

One of the protracted environmental trials apply Tofta firing range on the island of Gotland, which makes the investment in increased military presence on the island may be threatened.