ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the environmental lawsuit at Fornebu as an example of how legal and moral standards are negotiated with the native-alien dichotomy as a measuring-stick for belonging. It investigates how the interest groups at Fornebu, representing different types of scientific knowledge, used the same concepts in very dissimilar ways, and with particular moral and material consequences. The field of invasion biology is increasingly criticized for the criteria used to distinguish aliens and natives. Many invasive alien species cause some type of harm to nature or human societies. SABIMA spread environmental claims by using negatively loaded metaphors to describe the alien plants at Fornebu. Alien species was at the time a relatively new topic to the Norwegian public and SABIMA contributed towards portraying Fornebu as an environmental disaster. The spread of alien, invasive plants as environmental criminality touches upon our perception of the dual role of humans as ill-makers as well as protectors of nature and species.
