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Norway's Minister of Blah-Blah (Petroleum and Energy) today at parliament declared that the Supreme Court's decision the Fosen wind farm's permits were invalid and human rights violation doesn't mean the human rights violation will end by removing it, because "the Ministry's assessment is there is no legal basis for such an interpretation. Nor does the ruling mean the permits for the wind power plants [in question] have ended. Until new decisions come into place, the wind power plants will be operated in accordance with the original permits. The wind power companies are therefore not doing anything illegal".
When asked by press how long the decisions would take... there was no real answer.

As you may recall Prime Minister earlier declared that "it is a human rights violation that we can not live with".

Sámi rights activist Ella Mari Hætta Isaksen and Niillas Beaska, parliamentary leader of the Norwegian Sámi Association in Sámi Parliament of Norway commented "It's unfathomable that the permit is invalid, but the operation is somehow not illegal. There's a logical short circuit".

President of Sámi Parliament of Norway, Silje Karine Muotka, also came to same conclusion that "the Supreme Court has ruled the permit decision is invalid. Thus, the Ministry […] must revoke the permit decision".