グレタさん、ノルウェー先住民と連帯　風力発電に抗議

【オスロＡＦＰ＝時事】スウェーデンの環境活動家グレタ・トゥンベリさんは１２日、ノルウェーの首都オスロで先住民サーミ人の抗議行動に参加した。（写真は、ノルウェー・オスロの国営電力会社「スタットクラフト」前で行われた風力発電所の違法建設に反対するサーミ人のデモに参加した環境活動家のグレタ・トゥンベリさん〈左〉）
　ノルウェー最高裁は２０２１年、サーミ人がトナカイを放牧している西部フォセン地方の２か所の風力発電所が、国連が保証する先住民の権利を侵害していると判断。違法とする判決を下した。だが風力タービン１５１基がいまも稼働している。
　判決から２年目の１１日、サーミ人と環境活動家数十人はオスロで風力タービンの取り壊しを要求する抗議行動を開始。翌日合流したグレタさんと共に、風力タービンのうち８０基を操業する国営電力会社スタットクラフト本社の入り口を封鎖した。
　グレタさんはＡＦＰに対し「人権侵害が行われているとき、特にスカンジナビアでサーミ人の人権が侵害されているときに連帯を示すことは重要だ。その場に来て支持を表明することができる全員がそうすべきだ」と語った。
　グレタさんは同日、スウェーデンのマルメで７月に行われた抗議デモの際、警察の取り締まりに抵抗したとして５５００クローナ（約７万５０００円）の罰金刑を言い渡された直後にオスロのデモに駆け付けた。
　推定人口約１０万人とされるサーミ人はノルウェー、スウェーデン、フィンランド、ロシアの北部に暮らし、伝統的に漁業とトナカイの遊牧を中心に生計を立てている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/10/13-17:20）

Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg on Thursday joined indigenous Sami activists protesting in Oslo against wind turbines still operating on reindeer herding land two years after a court ruled them illegal.
On October 11, 2021, Norway's Supreme Court found that two wind farms in the Fosen region of western Norway -- on land used by Sami reindeer herders -- violated the rights of the indigenous people, guaranteed by the UN, to practise their culture of reindeer husbandry.
Two years later, the 151 turbines are still operating.
To mark the anniversary on Wednesday, dozens of environment activists and Samis began a series of protests in the Norwegian capital expected to last several days, demanding the demolition of the turbines.
On Thursday, Thunberg joined the activists to block the entrance to the headquarters of state-owned energy group Statkraft, which operates 80 of the 151 turbines in Fosen.
It's important to show solidarity when human rights violations are taking place especially in Scandinavia against the Sami people, Thunberg told AFP on Wednesday.
She was speaking just after a court in the southern Swedish town of Malmo had fined her for public disobedience at a July 24th protest in Malmo.
All of us who can be there and show our support should, she said.
On Thursday, she sat on the ground next to activists clad in traditional Sami clothing at the foot of a lavvu, a Sami tent erected outside the Statkraft entrance.
Thunberg had already taken part in a demonstration in February to mark the 500th day since the Supreme Court ruling.
Greta Thunberg is an important ally supporting our cause, Sami activist and artist Ella Marie Haetta Isaksen said.
- Demolition 'excluded' -
While the Supreme Court found that the expropriation and operating permits for the construction of the turbines were invalid, it gave no guidance on what should be done with the turbines, which were already in operation.
Norway's government has apologised to Sami reindeer herding families and recognised that their human rights have been violated.
It has launched a mediation process to try to find a solution enabling both the herders and wind farms to continue their activities.
Petroleum and Energy Minister Terje Aasland said Wednesday the destruction of all wind turbines was excluded and not a likely outcome of either a decision-making process or a mediation process.
The outcome could set a precedent for other infrastructure projects on the vast lands traditionally used by the Sami across Norway.
An indigenous minority of around 100,000 people spread over the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, the Sami have traditionally lived off reindeer herding and fishing.