Why Indigenous youth are gathering in Oslo to fight a green energy project
Two years after a wind farm was ruled illegal in Norway, Sámi activists are still fighting for its closure.
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Two years after a wind farm was ruled illegal in Norway, Sámi activists are still fighting for its closure.
Wind farm backlash grows in oil-rich Norway before election Source: By Lars Erik Taraldsen, Lars Paulsson and Jesper Starn, Bloomberg • Posted: Thursday, December 10, 2020 After being harassed on social media and told repeatedly that she’s a traitor who should be in jail, Norway’s 34-year-old energy minister is bracing for a controversial election campaign. In the country that has amassed a trillion-dollar fortune built on the revenue from oil and natural gas exports, it’s the green energy revolution that is stoking one of the loudest debates. Wind power could be...