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Norway announced Wednesday that it reached an agreement with the indigenous Sámi people after a three-year dispute over the construction of Europe’s largest onshore wind farm. The dispute centred on ...

The Sámi people are indigenous to Sápmi, a cultural region of Europe and Russia that covers the northern parts of Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Russia. For centuries, the Sámi people relied on ...

These days, however, the Nordic country’s fight against climate change by ramping up renewable energy is ironically hurting the Sami people. This issue has been dubbed green colonialism.

The activists say that a transition to green energy should not come at the expense of the rights of Indigenous people ... and 60,000 Sami live in central and northern Norway.

In October 2021, the Sámi people secured a legal victory. Norway’s Supreme Court ruled that the wind farm permits were invalid because the turbines violated the protected cultural rights of ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Norway on Wednesday reached an agreement with the Sami people, ending a nearly three-year dispute over Europe’s largest onshore wind farm and the Indigenous right to ...

Norway reached Wednesday an agreement with the Sami people ending a dispute over Indigenous right that led to activists blocking several entrances to Norwegian government offices over a wind farm ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway has reached an agreement with the Sami people, ending a nearly three-year dispute over Europe’s largest onshore wind farm and the Indigenous right to raise ...