OSLO – Norwegian police on Wednesday briefly detained environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg during an indication in Oslo, removing her and other activists from the finance ministry.
The campaigners are demanding the removal of wind turbines from reindeer pastures on Sami Indigenous land in central Norway.
They’ve in recent days blocked access to some government buildings, putting the centre-left minority government on a crisis footing and prompting Energy Minister Terje Aasland to call off an official visit to Britain.
Thunberg, holding a red, blue, yellow and green Sami flag, was lifted and carried away by cops while a whole bunch of demonstrators chanted slogans.
Norway’s supreme court in 2021 ruled that two wind farms at Fosen violated Sami rights under international conventions, however the turbines remain in operation greater than 16 months later.
Thunberg, for a lot of a worldwide standard-bearer of the campaign to finish the world’s reliance on carbon-based energy, was later released together with other activists who had also been detained.
She joined the protests in Oslo on Monday. Its supporters argue that a transition to green energy shouldn’t come on the expense of Sami rights.
Reindeer herders say the sight and sound of the large wind power machinery frighten their animals and disrupt age-old traditions.
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The energy ministry has said the turbines present a legal quandary despite the supreme court ruling and is hoping to search out a compromise, but that it could take one other yr to make a recent decision within the Fosen case.
Activists on Tuesday said that they had raised near $100,000 in recent days to assist individual demonstrators pay police fines.
OSLO – Norwegian police on Wednesday briefly detained environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg during an indication in Oslo, removing her and other activists from the finance ministry.
The campaigners are demanding the removal of wind turbines from reindeer pastures on Sami Indigenous land in central Norway.
They’ve in recent days blocked access to some government buildings, putting the centre-left minority government on a crisis footing and prompting Energy Minister Terje Aasland to call off an official visit to Britain.
Thunberg, holding a red, blue, yellow and green Sami flag, was lifted and carried away by cops while a whole bunch of demonstrators chanted slogans.
Norway’s supreme court in 2021 ruled that two wind farms at Fosen violated Sami rights under international conventions, however the turbines remain in operation greater than 16 months later.
Thunberg, for a lot of a worldwide standard-bearer of the campaign to finish the world’s reliance on carbon-based energy, was later released together with other activists who had also been detained.
She joined the protests in Oslo on Monday. Its supporters argue that a transition to green energy shouldn’t come on the expense of Sami rights.
Reindeer herders say the sight and sound of the large wind power machinery frighten their animals and disrupt age-old traditions.
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The energy ministry has said the turbines present a legal quandary despite the supreme court ruling and is hoping to search out a compromise, but that it could take one other yr to make a recent decision within the Fosen case.
Activists on Tuesday said that they had raised near $100,000 in recent days to assist individual demonstrators pay police fines.
