Legalectric

A while back, well, 4 years ago, I learned of the Norwegian Supreme Court’s ruling re: Fosen Vind, built on reindeer herding area — scroll down for the decision in English:

Norwegian Supreme Court rules against wind project

October 11th, 2021

Before the court in 2021:

The Norwegian Supreme Court case is now published in English!

And yes, the license decisions were deemed invalid. Starting to dig into this and see if there are lessons applicable to wind in the U.S., and of course MINNESOTA!

A rundown of this mess, from Wiki in “simple English”

(Search, and you’ll see that most of the articles are in Norwegian)

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

VIDEO: June, 2023 — does this not remind you of a smaller version of DAPL pipeline in North Dakota?

From last year:

Norway and the Sami people end a dispute over Europe’s largest onshore wind farm

Agreement between Nord-Fosen siida and Roan Vind

• Letter from the Minister to Nord-Fosen siida and Roan Vind (in norwegian) (PDF)
• The agreement between Nord-Fosen siida and Roan Vind can be found at Aneos website (in norwegian) (PDF)

Activists in Norway charged after blocking entrances to government offices to protest wind farm impact

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Soon, due to a sinkhole on Norway’s E6, the main connector South to North, I’ll be there, at the Storheia part of Fosen Vind, known as the “North Fosen” site, on Nord-Fosen Siida land. Until then, I’ll be learning more about this.

Well drat, just learned this, can’t really stop by to say HEI:

And up the road a bit, a monster substation:

This must be Roan, and looks a lot like the wind projects along the Columbia River: