via spiked-online:
The turbines sit on the land of a semi-nomadic indigenous people, the Sámi, whose at least 70,000 members mostly live in Norway, but also inhabit Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula in the Russian Federation. At issue are the Sámi ancestral lands and the pastures of reindeer herders. For Greta, their rights, and those of indigenous peoples everywhere, trump humanity’s need for electricity – even if that electricity is green. In this case, the Fosen Vind development is held to have broken national and international law by erecting the turbines, and by building 131km of connecting roads and power lines. Its actions, critics say, ‘have destroyed winter pastures and migration routes crucial for maintaining sustainable reindeer herding’. And so Fosen Vind is held up by activists as an example of ‘green colonialism’.
Which is an odd stance for someone perpetually in the “we only have five years to save the earth” school of doomsday enviro-mentalists.
by Ed Driscoll