Have you ever noticed that Warmists say they love “green” energy, but, when it comes time to construct it they block it?
Dozens of activists, including Greta Thunberg of neighboring Sweden, blocked the entrance to Norway's energy ministry in Oslo Monday to protest a wind farm they say hinders the rights of the Sami Indigenous people to raise reindeer in Arctic Norway. https://t.co/YVHC148j5X
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 27, 2023
Uh huh. From the link
Dozens of activists, including Greta Thunberg of neighboring Sweden, blocked the entrance to Norway’s energy ministry in Oslo Monday to protest a wind farm they say hinders the rights of the Sami Indigenous people to raise reindeer in Arctic Norway.
The activists, mainly teenagers, lay outside the ministry entrance holding Sami flags and a poster reading “Land Back.”
The protesters from organizations called Young Friends of The Earth Norway and the Norwegian Sami Association’s youth council NSR-Nuorat, said “the ongoing human rights violations” against Sami reindeer herders “must come to an end.” Several of the activists donned the Sami’s traditional bright-colored dress and put up a tent used by the Arctic people.
In October 2021, Norway’s Supreme Court ruled that the construction of the wind turbines violated the rights of the Sami, who have been using the land to raise reindeer for centuries. However, the wind farm is still operating.
“It is absurd that the Norwegian government has chosen to ignore the ruling,” said Thunberg, who joined the protest early Monday.
They have a point, however, last time I checked St. Greta wasn’t a Norwegian citizen. Why is she involved?
There will always be competing interests. It makes no sense to put windmills everywhere, does it?
But we understand that Ms Thunberg is a bete noir to fuelists.
She’s an activist leader. If she shows up a protest, people pay attention, and conservabloggers go apeshit crazy.
Dear Elwood:
“She’s an activist leader. If she shows up a protest, people pay attention, and conservabloggers go apeshit crazy.”
What she is a stupid POS who has never done anything to improve the lives of the rest of us.
Our esteemed host has, many times, mocked the warmunists as thinking we can be powered by fairy dust and unicorn farts, and more and more, it seems like he was correct. If they want us to cease burning fossil fuels, then they must also want alternative sources of energy to be developed and built, but they never actually like those alternative sources of energy being built.
Actually, I hear that burning unicorn farts releases far, far, far more greenhouse gases than burning coal.
When God created unicorns he made sure their farts were pure oxygen with a soupçon of rose fragrance.
Does Mr Dana agree with Mr Teach that unless windmills are put everywhere they might as well be put nowhere?? That’s fuelish!
Are there places where windmills shouldn’t be built?
Dear Elwood:
“Are there places where windmills shouldn’t be built?”
What a stupid question.
The Warmunist West of the Mississippi wrote:
They should obviously not be built anyplace where there is rarely sufficient wind to make them useful!
I wouldn’t mind a windmill here, not a giant one, but typical farm one, as the wind can whistle down the river valley in the winter and spring, though they’d be less useful during the summer and fall, when it seems as though we can’t get the first breath of a breeze some days.
The resistance to windmills comes from people with money who don’t want their view to be polluted, but those are sites where windmills are practical, due to weather patterns. NIMBY!
I wonder if the “kids” sitting around her are paid or are having their services “donated” by their parents.
We’re shocked – shocked! – that St Teach now supports the construction of wind turbines! It’s likely the pleasure he derives from seeing indigenous Sámi people harmed was just too delicious to resist! Decades ago, in grade school, we learned about the indigenous Sámi people, née ‘Laplanders’, nomadic people tending reindeer herds in the northern reaches of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. It’s estimated that about 100,000 nomadic Sámi exist today. If the governments had been more pro-active they would have marched the primitive Sámi southward onto reservations long ago.
BTW, it seems the erection of the windmills might have been somewhat, a little bit, illegal.