‘Green industry wants to take our land’: the Arctic paradox

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Sweden’s ‘green transformation’ promises to help Europe fight the climate crisis. So why is it uniting radical environmentalists, ecologists and Sami reindeer herders in protest?

. Yet, at a reindeer corral outside – one could almost say inside – the city of Luleå, it’s also evident how some of the “green” infrastructure projects that are intended as solutions to climate breakdown are also making the herding lifestyle harder by taking away grazing land.

. It found that reindeer tend to keep at least 5km away from a wind turbine. They mistake shadows from the blades for passing eagles, he claims.“This is land where my family have been since the iron age, and now, a windfarm with a life of about 25 to 30 years can force me from land where my ancestor put a name to all the mountains, to every river, and every creek.”

Märta Stenevi, one of the two leaders of Sweden’s Green party, acknowledges Sweden’s “shameful history of structural racism and discrimination of the Sami people”, but she believes a new “consultation law for issues which affect the Sami people”, which her party campaigned for and which came into force this March, can help solve the problem.

A Sami reindeer herder counts Andersson’s herd, looking for a stray, in the reindeer herding district near Luleå. Reindeer husbandry is of high cultural importance to the Sami.Andersson’s crew with a captured reindeer stray from his neighbour’s herd, on their way to return it.When I relay Stenevi’s thoughts to Henrik Andersson, he snorts. “Wherever you put windmills, we lose grazing land, so whatever they say, there cannot be any cooperation.

 

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