[Munqi]

Good to know. Not that many finnish peak oil sites out there.

[IslandCrow]

More problems with building the new nuclear powerstation in Finland.

The Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) on Tuesday quoted a letter from the Finnish Nuclear and Radiation Safety Authority (STUK) to Areva as saying that the watchdog might order the Olkiluoto power station building site shut down if the French nuclear group failed to address shortfalls in the facility's automation systems.

YLE further quoted STUK as saying that the design of the automation systems fell short of basic nuclear safety requirements and that the authority therefore did not see any possibility of clearing the systems for installation at the Olkiluoto site.

"Areva NP SAS was to have designed very important systems for safety, but unfortunately, the attitude or lack of professional knowledge of certain individuals who represented the organisation in question at meetings of experts prevent progress in solving the concerns," STUK wrote to Areva, according to the public broadcaster.

The Olkiluoto site has suffered from a string of delays, some to do with safety concerns.

On the other hand there is a denial which is based on what seems to be a play on the semantics of the report (note the contrast between "shutdown" and "halting construction").

"That letter certainly did not threaten with any site shutdown," Mr Laaksonen said.

"It only said that if these systems were not sorted out, construction would come to a halt at some point in time. There is plenty of time; it was only a matter of making sure that that time did not run out."

http://finland.fi/stt/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=21624&group=General

[Arkwright]

Finlands goverment came today to agreement of a huge support package for renewable energy. According to minister Pekkarinen the amount of renewable energy enabled by this package is comparable to three nuclear plants by year 2020. 55% of this will be produced by burning wood.
After closing the renewable energy package, the goverment continues to discussion about permisissions of new nuclear powerplants. Two new permissions are expected.

[IslandCrow]

More details of the renewable energy package: http://newsroom.finland.fi/public/default.aspx?app=803&newsid=24398.

Unfortunately most of the papers concentrate on the radioactive alternative under discussion (to replace imports of electricity from Russia).

Also Construction work on Olkiluoto III nuclear reactor to experience further major delays (AGAIN)

[Tuike]

Finland has finally it's own ASPO organization.
http://aspo-finland.fi/
I noticed they were being interviewed in radio.

[dinopello]

Don't let your Maserati do 185 in Finland!

Jaako Rytsola, a 27-year-old Finnish Internet entrepreneur and newspaper columnist, was cruising in his BMW one recent evening. "The road was wide and I was feeling good," he later wrote. "It's nice to be driving when there's no one in sight."

But this road wasn't empty; a radar-equipped police car was clocking his speed. The officer pulled over Mr. Rytsola's car and issued him a speeding ticket for driving 43 miles an hour in a 25-mile-an-hour zone.

The fine: $71,400.

The staggering sum was no mistake. In Finland, traffic fines generally are based on two factors: the severity of the offense and the driver's income.

[Tuike]

A few years ago, someone commented at me here at po.com you should throw tv away, because tv-broadcasts are crap. But Finnish tv is a good source of doom. In the past A Crude Awakening peak oil documentary was aired. Yesterday, in early evening news there was a news clip from Spain where 250mm rain trashed cars.

At 9pm there was a tv show, which premise was that collapse is inevitable, how are you prepared. Two survival minded people were interviewed and they shared opinion that social skills are most importart asset in collapse. Sole survivor stuff is ramboism. Humans are in constant need of help like in stuff like giving birth to a child. There was a tongue in a cheek part where journalist visited a hardware store and asked the salesperson what kind of stuff I need in zombie apocalypse. He tried on a camoflague suit and waved a huge knife in air. They interviewed also a cornucopian, but he was given only a little time to talk. He managed to say that engineers mad skills and renewables will save us but then they resumed to talk about collapse. There was also a philosofer in the studio, who said we are witnessing a series of mini collapses, where species and languages go extinct. Hollywood style mega collapse, where even politicans realize we are in collapse is fiction.

If you're intrested, the show can be seen in the following link. Link expires after a month. They speak Finnish.
http://areena.yle.fi/1-3081876

[Tanada]

Sounds like Scandinavia is a lot more intelligent in their planning than the rest of Europe or North America.

[Tuike]

Attention Finnish Peakers! There's a BBC mini tv series coming from television: Planet Oil.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4430354/
http://areena.yle.fi/1-2726685
Yle Teema - Historia: Ihminen ja oljy part 1/3 - 22.11.2016 - 21:00
Part 2/3 - 29.11.
Part 3/3 - 6.12.

[Tuike]

I just came out of a meeting with two ministers of Finland. One was the Director of Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland. We were to discuss how to develop the battery industry in Finland. They openly discussed concepts like peak oil, hyperinflation, EU currency reset, Break up of EU into something else and the projection that we don’t have nearly enough minerals to make the desired quantity of batteries and solar panels. They even knew what ERoEI was.
http://peakoil.com/generalideas/well-gosh

[Tuike]

There is a law here which allows for ordinary citizens to make law proposals if they get at least 50,000 people to support it via online registration. There's a new law proposal that got over 50k supporters in less than two days. It basically says gasoline price should be affordable. Note: these citizen's law proposals rarely get passed in the parilament to became an actual law.