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Swedish government greenlights higher-speed railway line north to Luleå

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, July 30, 2021 at 14:26
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The North Bothnia Line will connect Umeå and Luleå along the coast of north-eastern Sweden. In total, the railway entails

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Technologies to slow climate change could give 20% population growth northern Sweden

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, May 27, 2021 at 13:48
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Population could increase with as much as one-fifth as ten thousand new workplaces will be created in Västerbotten and Norrbotten

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Northern Sweden expects population boom from green investments

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 17:32 — Last Updated: Thursday, May 27, 2021 at 09:27
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Green investments are expected to attract about 100,000 people to Sweden’s far north in the next 15 years, meaning frantic

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Energy sector: Sweden will need twice as much electricity

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 10:58
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Sweden will need more than double the amount of electricity over the next 20 years, according to the business organisation

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Giant battery factory bringing economic boom to Northern Swedish city

Ulla Engberg and Dave Russell, Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 11:50 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 11:55
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A new lithium ion battery plant is making the municipality of Skellefteå feel like they have struck gold, as one

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Local workforce won’t be enough for future battery factory in northern Sweden

David Russell, Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, August 16, 2019 at 14:36
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The company Northvolt plans to recruit more than 2,500 people to its planned battery factory in Skellefteå, which is scheduled

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EU gives financial push to battery factory in Northern Sweden

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 14:48
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The European Investment Bank has approved a load request of €52,5 million from Northvolt. The demonstration plant is seen as

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Wind mills outside Umeå in Västerbotten, Sweden. (Thomas Nilsen/Barents Observer)
Environment Environment (Sweden) General Sweden 

City in North Sweden to approve 68 new windmills

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 16:47 — Last Updated: Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 20:54
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Sixty-eight new windmills soon to be approved near Skellefteå. In 2014, Europe installed more new wind energy capacity than gas

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