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Norway to build wind farm
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- Norway would build a wind park in an area used for reindeer grazing despite UN calls to suspend the project to study the impact on the indigenous herders’ livelihoods.
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- Norway is planning to build 288 megawatt Storheia wind park.
- It is part of Europe’s largest onshore wind power project being developed by the Fosen Vind consortium.
- UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination asked Norway to suspend the project so that it could examine a complaint that the project would disturb reindeer herding, a traditional activity of the Sami people.
- Reindeer herders have said the sight and sound of the turbines in the park, to be built in an area on Norway’s northwest coast used as pastures during winter months, could frighten the animals.
Source
The Hindu