The Permits project

”Through balancing several aspects, we shall land in an environmental permit we can live by."

Project Permits' main purpose is to ensure that the program has the necessary permits before starting to build MAXIMA, and is responsible for preparing the basis for the application and driving the process until permits are obtained.

The most comprehensive is the environmental permit, where the application must describe the activity that is planned, both in the construction phase and in the operation phase, and the impact it can be assumed to have on human health and the surrounding environment.

─ The goal is to land in an environmental permit we can live by based on three central aspects – it must be technically possible, economically reasonable and environmentally justified, says Lena Hellberg.

Building a broad knowledge base

The challenges for project Permits are to constantly weigh up various external factors with own processes, in order to move forward within given time and cost frames. This means thinking in many steps, engaging in dialogue with a large number of stakeholders, assessing consequences, and making sure that everyone is informed at the right time and to the right extent. The key is good planning, but at the same time being prepared to look up and re-plan if necessary.

─ It is very stimulating to work on such a large project over such a long period of time. By collaborating with experts in many different fields, you learn more all the time and gain a broad knowledge base. It provides the conditions to be able to ask the right questions and thus contribute to the best decisions, and really add something to the whole.