Wednesday, 19 March 2014

frEAKIng

While I'm waiting for friday and our first  group  meeting  concerning  the  exhibition  space division after which I hope I finally will know who is going to be exactly where and next to who...
I stumbled back on an old topic [deforestation caused by companies like IKEA] that I was researching/reading about a couple of years ago.
Here is an artical in swedish about it: http://www.svt.se/ug/ikea-avverkar-unik-urskog-i-skydd-av-miljoflagg unfortunatly I could not find the documentary online anymore. But I went to look on satellite images over Karelia to look for the visible traces of deforestation...
I found a location I have been looking at in 2011, but also a curious thing about this spot now is the change of color in the ground. Last time I saw a satellite image of it it was manly pink...



wikipedia: "The iron ore refinery (JSC Karelsky okatysh, or Karelian Pellet) employs approximately five thousand people and associated mining has left a huge hole near the factory"

So I suppose that the pink ground I saw in 2011 is now underwater...  
(the location is close by Kostomuksha)


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