In the far north of Sweden, the residents of Kiruna are once again being forced to pack up and move — this time, for the second or even third time Tanja Mattila and her husband had just spent about $300,000 on a new home when a letter arrived from LKAB, Sweden’s state-owned mining company, informing them that their neighborhood would soon become unsafe due to ground movement from the expanding iron ore mine
“It was a shock,” said Mattila, a 54-year-old language teacher “We planned to stay here until we retire