Google cut down hundreds of hectares of forest in neighboring Karelia Finland for the sake of data centers, and in the republic harmed nature for millions of rubles

In this regard, the authorities of the Scandinavian country stopped work.

In Suomi, a scandal erupts around the construction of Google data centers. The company cut down about 530 hectares of forest on two sites before the environmental impact assessment was completed.

We are talking about the sites in Muhosa and Kayaani, where Google plans to build large data centers.

About 330 hectares of forest were cut down in Mujos, almost 200 hectares in Kayaani.

On October 6, the Finnish Agency for Licensing and Supervision demanded to stop preparatory work that significantly changes the natural territory.

Google confirmed the shutdown on October 11.

The company claims to have acted in good faith, consulted with local authorities and believed it complied with the law.

However, the story has already moved beyond the environmental dispute: Finnish police have begun a preliminary check on possible illegal logging at the site in Mujos.

At the same time, the company has not yet refused to build data centers.

The scale of the projects is impressive: Google previously announced plans to invest 13 billion euros in the development of data centers in Finland.

At this time in Karelia, the builders of the tourist complex "Marina Park" in Karelia caused harm to nature by 4.4 million rubles

The Arbitration Court of Karelia ordered the head of the peasant economy Vyacheslav Gorbachev to pay more than 4.4 million rubles for damage to the environment during the construction of the Marina Park tourist complex. Earlier, a procedure for monitoring the bankruptcy case was introduced against the entrepreneur. The amount of damage was included in the third stage of the register of creditors' claims. This is reported by the Arbitration Court of Karelia.

According to the court, during the construction of the first stage of the Marina Park tourist complex in the water protection zone of Lake Onega, a road to the piers was equipped. Workers removed the fertile layer of soil and mixed it with fragments of stones and rubble. The court concluded that these works had damaged the natural soil layer.

Whether fines will stop entrepreneurs, time will tell.