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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General 

Finnish Lapland municipality estimated to have lowered emissions by 121 percent

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 09:44 — Last Updated: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 09:48
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For the first time, comparable data ranks greenhouse gas emissions for all Finnish municipalities. According to figures released by the

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General RCI 

Renewable energy must be community tailored, Arctic conference hears

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, February 7, 2020 at 14:25 — Last Updated: Friday, February 7, 2020 at 14:43
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As  communities across the polar region of North America work to get off diesel, renewable energy projects must be tailored

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Environment Environment (Sweden) General News Sweden 

Sweden’s small wind farms reducing energy production

Tatiana Kireeva, Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 11:13 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 10:54
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Small Swedish wind farms have been reducing the amount of energy they are producing because to do more would be

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Business Business (Finland) Finland General News 

Higher demand drove Finland’s electricity prices up in 2018

Yle News
Posted: Friday, January 4, 2019 at 11:21
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Last summer’s hot arid weather dried up hydroelectric power generation in the Nordic region, causing wholesale prices to spike by

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General News 

Finland’s power prices dropped as wind turbines were fed by winter storm

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, January 3, 2019 at 14:57
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Record-strong winds pushed the price of electricity down early Wednesday as they kept wind turbines spinning during a major winter storm.

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General News 

Finland could halve emissions by 2030 while saving money: study

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 at 11:33
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Finland could reduce greenhouse gas emissions more sharply over the next decade than so far projected, according to a report

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Business Business (Finland) Finland General News 

Businesses in south-east Finland learn to cope with military ban on wind turbines

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 16:26 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 09:47
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In south-east Finland, five wind turbines on the coast of the Gulf of Finland churn out electricity for regional utility

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General News Norway Society Society (Norway) 

Longread – The quest to turn Norway’s Arctic coast into Northern Europe’s wind power hub

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, July 13, 2018 at 15:27 — Last Updated: Friday, July 13, 2018 at 15:31
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The big winds that come in from the Barents Sea carry flush green power and profits. But developers are held

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General News 

Finland’s wind power sector is booming

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at 14:42
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Last year, 153 new turbines were installed in the country, according to the Finnish Wind Power Association. Some 700 turbines

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General News 

Arctic Canadian town learns lessons from Alaskan wind farm

Kaila Jefferd-Moore, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 at 16:30 — Last Updated: Friday, June 29, 2018 at 12:04
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As Inuvik, Northwest Territories, looks to harness the power of wind energy in order to reduce its reliance on diesel,

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Business Business (Finland) Finland General News 

Power company to build first non-subsidised wind farm in Finland

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, May 24, 2018 at 16:00
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Wind power company TuuliWatti is building a five-turbine wind power park in the municipality of Ii on the Bay of

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The ferry M/S Viking Grace belonging to Finnish cruise company Viking Line. (Heikki Saukkomaa/AFP/Getty Images)
Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General News 

Finnish company to launch wind-propelled cruise ship

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 15:33 — Last Updated: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 15:38
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Viking Line’s flagship cruise liner Grace has received an upgrade this week. On Tuesday ship workers in Turku installed a

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Business Business (Sweden) General Sweden 

Arctic winds: construction start for Europe’s biggest wind park

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, March 12, 2018 at 10:22 — Last Updated: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at 08:45
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The first 60 turbines will be built this year. When the Markbygden project is completed, presumably by year 2021, up

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General 

Wind power poses no health risk, yet symptoms persist in Finland : researchers

Yle News
Posted: Friday, July 14, 2017 at 13:58 — Last Updated: Friday, July 14, 2017 at 14:02
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No concrete evidence has been found connecting wind turbines with illnesses or health problems, but complaints about symptoms crop up

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Business Business (Norway) General Norway 

Finnish fuel billionaire invests in Arctic wind parks

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, March 20, 2017 at 13:27
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The two wind parks to be built in Finnmark, Norway are located some few tens of kilometers from the border

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