Greta Thunberg is back in the news. This time, she’s protesting the installation of wind farms in Norway. Earlier this month, Thunberg and several activists chained themselves to the doorway of Norway’s Energy Ministry. Some protesters, including Thunberg, were carried away and detained by police so that government offices could reopen. The protestors claim that the 151-turbine wind farm erected two years ago by the state-owned Norwegian energy company, Statkraft, severely disrupts land used for reindeer herding by the country’s largest indigenous population, the Sami.

In 2021, Norway’s Supreme Court ruled that the turbines endangered the Sami’s “cultural rights” according to international law. However, since the wind farms were ruled to be “invalid,” not “illegal,” they are still operating.