Energy in Finland - Human Rights

Human Rights

As of 2010, Finland has not ratified the international agreement to protect the rights of the Indigenous peoples. Finland has a minority of Sami people, Finnish Kale and Swedish-speaking Finns. Sami people traditionally useed reindeers for transportation, currently snowmobile and car are more popular, both of them use fossil fuels, reindeer uses pet and motor vehicles uses oil. In the 2000s Finnish court system has been repeatedly convicted of media restricions. In 2008 European Court of Human Rights convicted Finland in eight cases. In 2010 the leaders of the State Research Institute VTT tried to deny critics of their energy reports both before the Parliament decisions of the two additional new nuclear power investments and the new energy tax excluding peat tax. The case is under national investigation. VTT made new rules for the public statements. According to administration law professor of Helsinki University Olli Mäenpää: also the new principles of VTT are in conflict with the Finnish constitutional freedom to express ones opinions. Several professors gave equal statements.