Greta Protests Wind Turbines in Norway

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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg today joined protesters campaigning against a new wind farm in Norway, labelling it 'green colonialism'.

The protest saw the 20-year-old and dozens of Sami activists block the entrance to Norway's energy ministry to protest against wind turbines that are still in place on reindeer herding land, despite a court ruling.

The activists, mainly teenagers from groups called Young Friends of The Earth Norway and the Norwegian Sami Association's youth council NSR-Nuorat, lay outside the ministry entrance holding Sami flags and a poster reading 'Land Back.'

'We can't use the so-called climate transition as a cover for colonialism,' Thunberg told broadcaster TV2 as she blocked the doors of the ministry in Oslo.

'A climate transition that violates human rights is not a climate transition worthy of the name and we must therefore stand up against the human rights violations that are happening here,' she said.

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