Greta Thunberg is a young, Swedish activist who just recently joined an environmental group in Norway to protest wind turbines. There is an Indigenous group that is protesting wind turbines being built in their historic and traditional reindeer herding fields. They are claiming that the turbines being built will disturb and upset the reindeer that graze and live there. Greta Thunberg said "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." Recently, Norway's Supreme Court ruled that the permits to construct the wind turbines were invalid because it infringed on Indigenous cultural rights. We will see what happens with the turbines with the ongoing protests.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/01/europe/greta-thunberg-wind-farm-norway-sami-climate-intl
Lauren Pesola
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