Several environmental activists, including the Swedish Greta Thunberg, were evicted this Wednesday for blocking access to various ministries in Oslo in protest against the construction of wind turbines in Norwegian Lapland.
Groups of activists had been blocking the entrance to the Ministry of Oil and Energy for days, but today they extended their protest to access to three more departments, which made the authorities order their eviction.
Thunberg, like a dozen environmentalists, was forcibly moved from the entrance to the Ministry of Finance and carried a hundred meters away, while the protesters shouted “Let the mountains live”and then left the area, according to the images broadcast live on the website of the Dagbladet newspaper.
Activists call on the government to implement an October 2021 ruling from the Norwegian Supreme Court, which ruled that the construction of two wind farms on the Fosen peninsula did not have a valid license.
The Government defends itself by saying that the Supreme Court did not rule on what measures should be taken as a result and has ensured that it seeks a consensual solution between all parties.
The two wind farms of Storheia and Roan, with a total of 151 generators, they are built on grazing lands of transhumant reindeer herds of the indigenous Sami.
The activists refused last night to meet with the Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Terje Aasland, and demanded to do it instead with the Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre.
“We do not accept any more empty words in the process. We have two demands: the wind turbines must be removed and the grazing land must be returned“said in a statement NSR, which brings together various Sami groups.
The activists stressed that the Government has had 505 days to comply with the sentence and that they have lost confidence in it, so it should be the prime minister who solves the problem.
Due to protests, Aasland today called off a trip to the UK to participate in a visit with Crown Princes Haakon and Crown Prince Mette-Marit.