Posted on 03/01/2023 7:07:01 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Greta Thunberg has been twice detained at protests in Oslo over an onshore wind farm which she and activists say hinders the rights of the Sami indigenous people to raise reindeer in Arctic Norway.
The 20-year-old Swedish environmental campaigner and hundreds of other demonstrators say a transition to green energy should not come at the expense of indigenous rights and have been demanding the removal of 151 wind turbines from land used by Sami herders.
"We want to make it very clear that it is the Norwegian state that is committing the real crime here, for violating human rights," she told Reuters.
The Sami live in Lapland, which stretches from northern parts of Norway through Sweden and Finland to Russia.
Today, the nomadic people live mostly modern lifestyles but still tend reindeer.
They have said the sight and sound of the giant wind power machinery frightens their animals and disrupts age-old traditions.
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May I suggest a nightstick, officer?
The energy policy of the Left has always been no energy for the masses. Told my wife years ago that as soon as they did away with fossil fuels and nuclear, they’d come for wind and solar. Thank you Greta for making me look so smart.
Hey, surely somebody has a hand-crank generator that can be sent to Greta!
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