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Wind Power News: Norway
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Norway wind farms at heart of Sami protest violate human rights, minister says
Norway’s government apologised on Thursday to Indigenous Sami groups for the construction of wind turbines on reindeer pastures, calling it a “human rights violation”, while also urging a solution that still allows power production in the area. The apology by Minister of Petroleum and Energy Terje Aasland followed a week of protests by Sami activists, and others including environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg, that led to a growing crisis for the government. “I have apologised (today) on behalf of the government . . . Complete story »
Norway apologises for ‘illegal’ wind farms on indigenous land
Norway’s government on Thursday apologised to indigenous Sami reindeer herders affected by wind farms that were declared illegal after they were built, following a week of protests by activists. The country’s highest court unanimously ruled in October 2021 that the expropriation and operating permits issued for the construction of 151 turbines in the Fosen region of western Norway were invalid. The court found that the project violated the rights of Sami families to practise their culture of reindeer husbandry. However, . . . Complete story »
Police break up Norway wind farm protest by Thunberg
Oslo: Activist Greta Thunberg and indigenous Sami activists were forcibly removed by police on Wednesday as they blocked access to Norwegian ministries in protest over wind turbines on reindeer herding land. Police started to break up the demonstrations by physically carrying away members of the group, who were protesting against the use of wind turbines on reindeer herding land in the Fosen region of western Norway. Thunberg was carried off by two police officers while she was blocking a door . . . Complete story »
Norway energy minister seeks to save illegally approved wind energy facilities
Norwegian energy minister Terje Aasland is seeking a compromise to maintain production at two major onshore wind farms (544 MW) amid demands to tear them down – which experts fear could damage the country’s wind industry at large. Norway’s Supreme Court decided in 2021 that the licences for the Roan (256 MW) and Storheia (288 MW) wind farms were invalid, because decision makers had failed to fully consider the rights of indigenous Sami farmers whose reindeers graze in the area. Aasland wanted to . . . Complete story »
Protests force Norway’s energy minister to cancel UK trip
Norway’s energy minister on Wednesday canceled a trip to the U.K. because of a protest against a wind farm that campaigners say hinders the rights of the Sami Indigenous people to raise reindeer in Arctic Norway. The activists, mainly teenagers, have been blocking the entrance to several ministries in the Norwegian capital since Monday. They are protesting against a wind farm that’s still operating despite a ruling by Norway’s Supreme Court in October 2021 that the construction of the wind . . . Complete story »
Norway protests target wind farm on land used by herders
Dozens of activists, including Greta Thunberg of neighboring Sweden, blocked the entrance to Norway’s energy ministry in Oslo Monday to protest a wind farm they say hinders the rights of the Sami Indigenous people to raise reindeer in Arctic Norway. The activists, mainly teenagers, lay outside the ministry entrance holding Sami flags and a poster reading “Land Back.” The protesters from organizations called Young Friends of The Earth Norway and the Norwegian Sami Association’s youth council NSR-Nuorat, said “the ongoing . . . Complete story »
Motvind Sjonfjellet: Å etablere et vindkraftverk på Sjonfjellet er det absolutt motsatte av bærekraftig!
[Establishing a wind power plant on Sjonfjellet is the absolute opposite of sustainable!] Gir ikke billigere strøm – overskudd selges ut I Rana Blad 10 februar kunne vi lese at Njordr ønsker å etablere vindindustri på Sjonfjellet. Daglig leder poengterer at alternativet til rask utbygging er høyere strømpriser. Det står nå 1392 vindturbiner og surrer og går langs hele kysten vår; noe som definitivt ikke har ført til reduksjon av strømregninga! Tvert imot, ny kraftproduksjon i Norge vil ikke ha . . . Complete story »
Turbulens i samiske organisasjoner etter avsløringer om vindkraft
[Disputes have broken out in the Sami community after it became known that the Finnmarkseiendommen has given Finnmark Kraft the exclusive right to develop wind power in Finnmark.] Det har vakt kraftige reaksjoner i samiske miljø etter at det ble kjent at Finnmarkseiendommen (FeFo) ikke bare eier aksjer i Finnmark Kraft, men også har gitt selskapet enerett til å bygge vindkraftanlegg i Finnmark. Document kan avsløre at samiske interesser dermed har havnet i indirekte kompaniskap med selskaper nært knyttet til . . . Complete story »
Le plus grand parc éolien offshore du monde sert à produire du pétrole
[The world’s largest offshore wind turbine facility will be used to supply Norwegian oil and gas platforms.] Les chiffres sont pour le moins impressionnants. Hywind Tampen, le plus grand parc éolien offshore flottant du monde, vient d’être lancé cette semaine en Norvège. C’est l’entreprise Equinor qui a créé et exploitera ce site. Avec ses 11 turbines de 8,6 mégawatts, il est situé à 140 km des côtes, avec une profondeur d’eau située entre 260 et 300 mètres. Un projet éolien . . . Complete story »
Ny forskning: Fiskeyngel forstyrres av undersjøiske strømkabler
[Fish larvae are disturbed by magnetic fields from undersea power cables for offshore wind projects. Noise from the turbines, which is continuous and has a very low frequency, can also disturb the fish, say the researchers from the Institute of Marine Research.] Norge har store planer for havvind, som blant annet vil kreve ilandføringskabler gjennom sjøen. Men ny forskning viser at hyse-larver forstyrres av magnetfelt fra undersjøiske strømkabler (ekstern lenke). Dét kan til syvende og sist gå ut over fiskekakene . . . Complete story »
