For a long time, Vattenfall has paid up to SEK 2.4 million per year to finance firefighters on standby at the Porjus and Vuollerim power plant sites.

But the agreement has been terminated, partly because the group feels compelled to save to cope with the green transition.

"A smooth transition"

Vattenfall's agreement proposal, which is valid for another two years, is to pay SEK 2 million the first year and SEK 1 million in the second year and then nothing.

- We have submitted an offer to the municipality to create a smooth transition to a phasing out, but we have not received any feedback on that, says Christer Ljunggren, CEO of Vattenfall Vattenkraft.

Are you ready to change and pay the full cost?

- No, we are not in the current situation, but we are awaiting feedback from the municipality.

I have nothing more to add.

"Trust equals zero"

Roland Boman, group leader for Framtid in Jokkmokk, believes that the municipal management will propose that Vattenfall should continue to pay for the fire brigades in Porjus and Vuollerim.

- Confidence in Vattenfall's management is now in principle equal to zero among Jokkmokk's population.

They also do not take responsibility for electrical safety and the operations center in Vuollerim and what can happen in the event of a fire.

On some occasions, 20 percent of Vattenfall's production is controlled by Vuollerim, but the management does not take this into account.

It's scary, says Roland Boman.

26 minutes commitment time

At the same time, the municipality's community building committee has set a direction that Porjus and Vuollerim will receive rescue protection based on voluntary forces.

Rescue chief Ronnie Lindberg is worried about the future.

According to the rescue service's investigation, the response time from Jokkmokk will be 26 minutes to both locations.

Hear him tell more about the long wait and concerns about this in the video above.