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Sámi mount new challenge to legality of Norway’s largest wind farm

Norwegian plans to build that country’s largest wind farm to date has put its green-energy obligations in conflict with its commitment to Sámi rights.

By Kevin McGwin April 20, 2018
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The largest Sámi organisation in Norway has joined forces with several of that country’s most prominent conservation groups to seek a halt to construction of a wind farm reindeer herders feel is progressing in violation of their rights.

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