FINLAND & SWEDEN
April 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLSWEDEN and Finland are being threatened with legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over their alleged failures to properly clean their wastewater discharges, a problem causing the shallow Baltic Sea to become rich with nutrients, sometimes causing dangerous algal blooms. These pollute marine waters and also consume oxygen, asphyxiating fish, causing mass deaths and so further pollution. In both instances, the European Commission alleges breaches of the EU urban wastewater treatment directive. Brussels says Sweden has failed to stop ...
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