• Hazdaz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How are wind farms “destroying Sami land”? Please fill me in.
    Full disclosure, I work in the industry so I would LOVE to know how a wind turbine tower which at it’s base is typically no more than 5 m in diameter (15’) is destroying anything when wind farms are commonly installed on farm land with essentially no disruption to the field and it’s use to grow food.

    • axexrx@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      This is just a guess, but could the vibrations / low frequency sound be bad for / drive away animals they hunt? I know my community has rebuffed attempts at an offshore one for those reasons and the effect on our fisheries. (I understand sound propagation through water is quite a different beast, but thats my conjecture)

      • FlyingPiisami@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        Just pointing out that reindeer aren’t really hunted, they’re more like free roaming cattle. They’re all owned by someone.

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        I don’t mean to be a dick, but if everybody’s gonna make changes could these Sami folks eat something else?