Watch Greta Thunberg being carried away by police during anti-wind farm protest in Norway

Greta Thunberg was briefly detained by Oslo police on 1 March during a protest against wind farms built on Indigenous land in Norway.

Along with dozens of other activists, the Swedish environmental campaigner has been blocking entrances to the energy and finance ministries in Oslo since Monday 27 February. 

Thunberg, a passionate advocate for the ending the world's reliance on carbon-based power, says the transition to green energy cannot come at the expense of Indigenous rights.

"Indigenous rights, human rights, must go hand-in-hand with climate protection and climate action. That can't happen at the expense of some people. Then it is not climate justice," she said in an interview with news agency Reuters.

Video footage from Wednesday shows the police carrying Thunberg away from the entrance to the Ministry of Finance carrying a Sami flag. As protestors chant, she is set down on the ground nearby. She is once again removed after attempting to join protestors at another entrance.

The two wind farms in question occupy land traditionally used by Indigenous Sami reindeer herders in central Norway. Their 151 turbines can power some 100,000 Norwegian homes.

But in 2021 the country's supreme court ruled that the projects violated Sami rights under international conventions. Despite this, they remain in operation more than 16 months later. 

"They've already waited more than 500 days, I think that's more than enough time," Greta argues.

Campaigners from Nature and Youth and the Norwegian Samirs Riksforbund Nuorat joined her in blocking the entrances to the Ministry of Oil and Energy in protest.

Reindeer herders in the Nordic country say the sight and sound of the giant wind power machinery frighten their animals and disrupt age-old