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Wind Power News: Norway

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These news and opinion items are gathered by National Wind Watch in its noncommercial educational effort to help keep readers informed about developments related to industrial wind energy. They do not necessarily reflect the opinions of National Wind Watch. They are the products of and owned by the organizations or individuals noted and are shared here according to “fair use” and “fair dealing” provisions of copyright law.


March 9, 2024 • Norway, OpinionsPrint storyE-mail story

Nei til vindmølleparker

Nedbygging av norsk natur går nå i rekord-fart. Norske distriktskommuner skriker etter flere arbeidsplasser og samtidig gir dårlig kommuneøkonomi i distriktskommunene motivasjon til å godta at naturen og tradisjonelle næringer må gi plass for ny industri. Vi har spesielt sett det i mange år i havbruksnæringen, den gir sårt tiltrengte arbeidsplasser i distriktene og gir penger direkte i kommunekassen gjennom havbruksfondet. Dette gjør at mange kommuner føler de er nødt til å gi plass for denne industrien og tillater en . . . Complete story »


March 6, 2024 • NorwayPrint storyE-mail story

Norway ends dispute with reindeer herders over wind farm

Norway has reached an agreement with Sami reindeer herders that allows the country’s largest wind farm to stay in operation, ending a dispute over Indigenous rights, the energy ministry said on Wednesday. Norway’s supreme court ruled in 2021 that the Storheia and Roan wind farms in Fosen in central Norway violated Sami rights under international conventions – prompting huge protests last year over the protracted process to implement the ruling. An agreement was reached in December with one group of . . . Complete story »


February 9, 2024 • Norway, Print storyE-mail story

Vindkraft-anlegg senker verdien på boliger betydelig

[Wind power plants reduce the value of homes significantly – If you get a wind turbine nearby, it can remove up to half a million kroner (~50,000 USD) from the house’s value.] Vindkraft på land har blitt svært kontroversielt, og den lokale motstanden er ofte svært høy. Så høy har konflikten vært at behandling av nye søknader ble satt på pause i flere år. Ifølge en ny masteroppgave fra Universitetet i Oslo som nettopp har fått toppkarakteren A, skrevet i samarbeid . . . Complete story »


December 20, 2023 • Norway, Print storyE-mail story

Dispute over illegal Norway wind farm continues despite partial deal with reindeer herders

Norway has reached a partial agreement with Sami reindeer herders over the fate of the country’s largest wind farm, which the supreme court says infringed on indigenous rights, but the controversy is not over, some herders said on Tuesday. Norway’s supreme court ruled in 2021 that the Storheia and Roan wind farms in Fosen in central Norway violated Sami rights under international conventions, prompting huge protests earlier this year over the protracted process to implement the ruling. One group of . . . Complete story »


November 16, 2023 • Norway, SwedenPrint storyE-mail story

Chinese-owned chunk of Europe’s biggest wind farm hits financial rocks after record power deal debacle

The 653MW Markbygden Ett wind farm – a sub-project of Europe’s largest wind complex Markbygden – has filed for restructuring proceedings with the Umeå district court in northern Sweden after getting into financial difficulties, apparently due to an unprofitable power purchase agreement (PPA) with Norwegian aluminium giant Hydro. The wind farm operator closed a corporate PPA with Hydro in 2017, which then was claimed to be the world’s largest green power offtake agreement. Under the terms of the PPA, Markbygden . . . Complete story »


November 1, 2023 • Denmark, NorwayPrint storyE-mail story

Offshore wind farms can “steal” wind from each other

Offshore wind farms can reduce the availability of downstream wind resources of other farms by as much as 20 percent within 50 kilometres, due to so-called wake effects. This is shown by interdisciplinary research from the University of Bergen (UiB). “The incentive to develop an offshore wind farm can diminish with just a five percent reduction in capacity, based on economic considerations,” says PhD candidate Eirik Finserås at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen (UiB). Finserås recently published the . . . Complete story »


October 23, 2023 • NorwayPrint storyE-mail story

Tvert nei til vindkraftverk som kan true drikkevannet [No to wind turbines threatening drinking water]

[Hydraulic oil has leaked into the environment and wind turbines have caught fire. A number of accidents show that there are risks in developing and operating wind power.] Hydraulikkolje har lekket ut i naturen, og vindturbiner har tatt fyr. En rekke tidligere ulykker viser at det er risiko ved å bygge ut og drive vindkraft. Tilsynet står fast på at vindkraftverket på Rákkočearru (Raggovidda) i Øst-Finnmark ikke kan utvides i den retningen utbyggerne ønsker. Mattilsynet mener det er altfor høy . . . Complete story »


October 19, 2023 • Norway, Print storyE-mail story

Sámi youth enlist the king of Norway’s help to fight an illegal wind farm

“What Nordic infrastructure projects in Sápmi call ‘green energy,’ to the rest of the world looks exactly like traditional colonialism.” Outside of the royal palace, in Oslo, seven Sámi youths waited to speak with King Harald V of Norway. They wore gáktis, their traditional clothing, and on the lawn, near the neoclassical building, a lávvu stood – a temporary Sámi dwelling that resembles a teepee. Just after noon, the youths were granted an audience with the king. The meeting was the . . . Complete story »


October 13, 2023 • Norway, Print storyE-mail story

Sami activists protest illegal wind turbines in Norway

Two years ago, Norway’s Supreme Court found that two wind farms in the Fosen region of western Norway – on land used by Sami reindeer herders – violated the rights of the indigenous people to practise their culture of reindeer husbandry. Environment and indigenous Sami activists held protests in Oslo on Wednesday to demand the demolition of wind turbines still in place on reindeer herding land two years to the day after a court ruled them illegal. On October 11, 2021, Norway’s . . . Complete story »


September 12, 2023 • Norway, Print storyE-mail story

Sami activists set up camp outside Norway parliament to protest wind turbines

An Indigenous Sami activist set up camp outside the Norwegian parliament on Monday to protest against wind turbines built on land traditionally used by Sami reindeer herders, saying he will stay there as long as the turbines remain in place. Norway’s supreme court in October 2021 ruled that two wind farms built at Fosen in central Norway, part of Europe’s largest onshore wind farm, violated Sami rights under international conventions. But the turbines remain in operation today. The Fosen case . . . Complete story »


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