Tag: Sami
No plans to take down turbines
A majority of Trøndelag residents want to let controversial wind turbines in the Fosen area keep operating, but only if the rights of Sami...
Støre and his party now in ‘deep crisis’
NEWS ANALYSIS: Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre walked into the proverbial lion's den on Thursday, when he addressed the Sami Parliament in Karasjok just...
Harassment and death threats have followed wind power protests
The president of the Sami Parliament, other top politicians and many of those demonstrating last week against wind turbines on Sami land in Norway...
Wind turbines’ future still up in the air
Sami and environmental activists ended their blockades of several Norwegian government ministries on Friday, after securing official promises that huge turbines generating wind power...
From arrests to apology: Government ‘sorry’ it violated Sami human rights
It took a week of protest demonstrations in Oslo, but Sami reindeer herders in central Norway finally received a long-overdue apology from the Norwegian...
Wind turbine protests blow even harder
The Norwegian government is caught in a storm of increasingly angry protests over wind power turbines on the Fosen Peninsula, and over how government...
Police crack down on turbine protest
UPDATED: Activists promoting both Sami and environmental interests occupied Norway's Oil & Energy Ministry through the weekend, and then blocked all its entrances on...
Sami mark 30th national day in the cold
Norway's indigenous Sami people have their own Parliament and are in the midst of a cultural reawakening. On the 30th anniversary of their national...
Some progress amid Sami celebrations
Norway's indigenous Sami people could finally celebrate not only their cultural heritage but some recent accomplishments on their national day this past weekend. Challenges...
New Year speeches stressed solidarity
All three of the New Year speeches delivered by the monarch, the prime minister and the president of the Sami Parliament (Sametinget) during the...
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