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A year after Supreme Court verdict, Fosen wind farm still stands amid soaring energy crisis

The Supreme Court of Norway deemed the farms illegal in 2021.

By Saara-Maria Salonen, The Independent Barents Observer October 14, 2022
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Even from the beginning of the project, wind farms on Norway’s Fosen peninsula was met with resistance from the local communities in central Norway. The wind farms are providing more wind power than all of Norway’s wind farms combined, but they are located on the winter pastures of local reindeer.

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