It was on 14 March earlier this year that the Land and Environment Court announced that the state would compensate Nordkalk with SEK 625 million for lost limestone extraction 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 Environment Court. The following year, the legal camp was changed following a government decision that turned the areas Stora Vikers and Bästeträsk into EU nature reserves, so-called Natura 2000 areas.

According to documents from Kammarkollegiet, the state is now appealing the ruling and wants the matter to be tried in the Land and Environment Court of Appeal.

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