How Wind Power and Indigenous Rights Clash in Norway

[Gunnar Larson]

How Wind Power and Indigenous Rights Clash in Norway
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-02/how-wind-power-and-indigenous-rights-clash-in-norway


Already a world leader in the use of renewable energy, Norway has plans to
up its game. But now, two large wind parks on the country’s blustery Fosen
peninsula have become the source of a collision between indigenous rights
and the government’s green agenda, raising questions over future projects.
Protesters concerned about the effects of the parks’ operations on the
Indigenous Sami have blocked government offices and demanded that officials
shut down the project’s 151 turbines. The case is considered a bellwether
of the future of onshore wind power in Norway, which needs more clean power
generation to supplement its vast hydropower resources in order to meet its
emissions-reduction goals and prepare for the electrification of
everything.
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