Natural Resources committee  I believe this agreement has been of benefit to the relationship between the Sami Parliament and the Norwegian government. Of course, the Sami people are diverse. They're involved in different livelihoods, all of which are not able to be...or are not as strongly represented by th

Natural Resources committee  You're putting me a little bit on the spot with “top three”.

Natural Resources committee  I think I can come up with maybe one or two. The current way we decide on infrastructure projects in Norway is through environmental impact assessments. If the Sami Parliament and the Government of Norway decided to put some serious effort into developing the environmental impac

Natural Resources committee  To start, it's my impression that you have gotten quite a bit further in Canada than we have in Norway when it comes to dealing with indigenous knowledge. In Norway, even among academics, it's a relatively recent concept that hasn't had as much focus as you've had in Canada. Henc

Natural Resources committee  I'm not sure that I'm able to put any of the countries above one another.

Natural Resources committee  I guess many Sami people consider Norway to be perhaps the country that has come the furthest in developing approaches to engage indigenous peoples, but there are still plenty of hurdles to go.

Natural Resources committee  Unfortunately, there hasn't been widespread systematic collection of traditional indigenous knowledge in Norway. However, there have been some good examples of how to do this. The Sami Parliament has initiated some minor work to document indigenous knowledge relating to particula

Natural Resources committee  I haven't had any experience with secondary assessments, unfortunately. The type of indigenous knowledge I've seen well documented that has perhaps been useful in these types of processes has been about historical land use and possible future land use for reindeer herding so that

Natural Resources committee  As I said at the beginning of my presentation, reindeer herding is a minor livelihood, involving very few people, and it's perhaps understandable that we cannot win every single land-use case. But my research partners also tell me that if they had been included at a much earlier

Natural Resources committee  Yes. I will end my testimony by giving you a very practical example in the words of reindeer herder Aslak Ante Sara, who has his reindeer in Hammerfest, the northern Norwegian city where Statoil has its LNG plant. He explains his experience with the planning process in Snøhvit a

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Let me first say that it's an honour for me to appear before the committee this afternoon. I work as a researcher on indigenous knowledge and environmental governance in the Nordics. I'm also indigenous Sami and I grew up in a reindeer-herding fa