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Thunberg, indigenous protesters block Norway energy ministry over wind farms
Reuters via Yahoo ^ | February 27, 2023 | Victoria Klesty and Gwladys Fouche

Posted on 02/27/2023 3:58:47 AM PST by grundle

OSLO (Reuters) -Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg and dozens of other activists on Monday blocked entrances to Norway's energy ministry, protesting against wind turbines built on land traditionally used by indigenous Sami reindeer herders.

Thunberg, a vocal advocate for the ending the world's reliance on carbon-based power, said the transition to green energy could not come at the expense of indigenous rights.

"Indigenous rights, human rights, must go hand-in-hand with climate protection and climate action. That can't happen at the expense of some people. Then it is not climate justice," Thunberg told Reuters while sitting outside the ministry's main entrance with other demonstrators.

Norway's supreme court in 2021 ruled that two wind farms built in central Norway violated Sami rights under international conventions, but the turbines remain in operation more than 16 months later.

Reindeer herders in the Nordic country say the sight and sound of the giant wind power machinery frighten their animals and disrupt age-old traditions.

"We are here to demand that the turbines must be torn down and that legal rights must be respected," said Sami singer-songwriter, actress and activist Ella Marie Haetta Isaksen.

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1 posted on 02/27/2023 3:58:47 AM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

Greta “I’m against everything” Thunberg Protest again..... This is not news 🤣


2 posted on 02/27/2023 4:01:00 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: grundle

Hee hee hee. The little Swedish Meatball is going after the big money envirolunatics.


3 posted on 02/27/2023 4:01:03 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Remember what FJB Brandon said, "...more than half of the women in my administration are women.")
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To: grundle

Hold on I though the greenies wanted wind turbines ???


4 posted on 02/27/2023 4:06:12 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: grundle

Intersectionality at its finest. :-)


5 posted on 02/27/2023 4:06:41 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: grundle

The mind of the liberal.

The world will end unless the human race fixes Climate Change, except those places with indigenous people who are everywhere.


6 posted on 02/27/2023 4:08:07 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: grundle

YOU CANT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS, GRETA


7 posted on 02/27/2023 4:20:51 AM PST by struggle
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To: grundle

Where exactly are white people considered to be the indigenous race?


8 posted on 02/27/2023 4:22:01 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: grundle

These people have no idea what they are fighting for.


9 posted on 02/27/2023 4:25:25 AM PST by vivenne
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10 posted on 02/27/2023 4:25:51 AM PST by Bobalu (Unrepentant communists, NAZI’s and totalitarians of all stripe are bowing toward Davos)
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To: Bobalu

Eek!!! 😨😱😳🙀


11 posted on 02/27/2023 4:27:18 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: grundle

NIMBY hits fake climate change

Hey weirdo’s, did you hear about the train crash in east Ohio


12 posted on 02/27/2023 4:34:49 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: grundle

OK, the Sami are indigenous, but aren’t everyone else?


13 posted on 02/27/2023 4:36:38 AM PST by dangus
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To: struggle

She’s being perfectly consistent here... the goal was never to build alternatives to oil and gas. The goal has been to use wind/solar to eliminate oil and gas, then remove the wind/solar. She’s pro-Sami because their lifestyle is pre-industrial, which is what Thunberg and the rest seek to impose on everyone else.


14 posted on 02/27/2023 4:46:21 AM PST by TimSkalaBim
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To: grundle

Don’t tell me she’s not benefitting financially from this little sideshow.


15 posted on 02/27/2023 4:50:34 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Tennessee Nana

“Hold on I though the greenies wanted wind turbines ???”

If it takes DEMANDING wind turbines one day, and then protesting particular wind turbines the next day, staying quiet while the US blows up their pipelines - it’s all good and fine for the agenda of her handlers, which is to turn Europe into an S-hole bunch of countries.


16 posted on 02/27/2023 4:52:23 AM PST by BobL
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To: TimSkalaBim
It always amazes me that they know what the composition of the Universe...including temperature...should be....but that is actually absolutely impossible. Just the increase in population changes the entire system.

The universe is self balancing.

17 posted on 02/27/2023 4:55:14 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Tennessee Nana
Hold on I though the greenies wanted wind turbines ???

greenies = NIMBYs

18 posted on 02/27/2023 4:57:52 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Same here. She went off script. She will be disappeared/silence by the left. Just watch


19 posted on 02/27/2023 5:00:32 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: grundle

Can’t use what works(oil & gas), can’t build anything new, according to leftists.


20 posted on 02/27/2023 5:01:03 AM PST by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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