Sweden complains over lack of consultation

Six Swedish environmental authorities are demanding an answer from the Danish Environmental Protection Agency on how it intends to compensate for the future artificial peninsula Lynetteholm’s blockage of the Sound, according to Ingeniøren. The Danish Hydraulic Institute has calculated the blockage to be 0.25 percent of the water and salt flow in the Baltic Sea. For example, by digging away soil in several places in the seabed around the plants so that the water flow is not too affected. The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency notes that other major projects affecting the Sound have previously been conditional on maintaining an unchanged flow or zero option.
   The Swedish authorities believe that this should also apply to Lynetteholmen. Lynetteholmen is the largest construction project since the construction of Christianshavn, built by Christian IV around 1630. The new artificial island will accommodate 35,000 new inhabitants and jobs, and it will be completed in 2070. The large-scale project was presented in 2018 by then Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and then Lord Mayor of Copenhagen Frank Jensen. Towards 2070, the project will result in a new harbour tunnel and metro line, but the big thing will be the new artificial island. /ritzau/