{"id":4598,"date":"2025-12-24T09:45:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=4598"},"modified":"2025-12-24T09:45:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:45:57","slug":"norways-green-transition-is-putting-sami-culture-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2025\/12\/24\/norways-green-transition-is-putting-sami-culture-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway\u2019s green transition is putting Sami culture at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sami herder Ellinor Guttorm Utsi argues that Norway\u2019s push for wind energy threatens her people\u2019s ancient culture and livelihoods. The government plans to build hundreds of turbines on traditional grazing lands, which would fragment ecosystems and disrupt critical reindeer migration routes. Utsi contends that prioritizing industrial green energy over Indigenous rights mirrors past state efforts to erase Sami identity. She calls for the protection of their heritage, emphasizing that climate solutions must not come at the expense of vulnerable Indigenous communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> December 19, 2025. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2025\/12\/19\/norways-green-transition-is-putting-sami-culture-at-risk\">aljazeera.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sami herder Ellinor Guttorm Utsi argues that Norway\u2019s push for wind energy threatens her people\u2019s ancient culture and livelihoods. The government plans to build hundreds of turbines on traditional grazing lands, which would fragment ecosystems and disrupt critical reindeer migration routes. Utsi contends that prioritizing industrial green energy over Indigenous rights mirrors past state efforts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":4604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4606,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions\/4606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}