© Reuters/STOYAN NENOVįILE PHOTO: The Wider Image: As Arctic warms, herders tangle with new industries
Storebrand Asset Management, Elkem's seventh-largest shareholder with a 1.2% stake, said it would contact Elkem in view of a landmark ruling in October, when Norway's Supreme Court stripped two wind farms of their operating licences on the basis they interfered with herders' cultural rights and breached international conventions. OSLO (Reuters) - Two shareholders in Norwegian silicon producer Elkem are pressing the company to respect the rights of indigenous Sami reindeer herders who object to plans for a quartz mine they say put their ancient culture at risk. FILE PHOTO: A Sami reindeer herder tends to his flock on the Finnmark Plateau, Norway
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