Usagevpn.com – A viral claim that wind turbines in Norway were ordered to be dismantled because they caused reindeer to be born deformed is false. The story misrepresents a major legal dispute involving the Sámi people, reindeer herding and one of Europe’s largest land-based wind power developments.

At the centre of the claim is the Fosen wind power area on Norway’s coast, where 151 turbines operated by Roan Vind remain in place. Social media posts viewed hundreds of thousands of times suggested that Norway’s Supreme Court had demanded their removal after finding that the turbines were harming reindeer offspring. No such ruling was made, and there are no scientific reports linking wind turbines to malformed reindeer births in Norway or elsewhere.…