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The Real Facts Regarding Mark Kennedy’s Infiltration of Iceland’s...
The recent spate of articles about the police spy Mark Kennedy that have appeared in the Guardian and elsewhere have greatly exaggerated the minor role of Kennedy in the Icelandic environmental...
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Alcoa in Greenland: Empty Promises?
By Miriam Rose After many years of preparations the Greenlandic government say the final decision on Alcoa’s proposed smelter will be taken at the spring 2012 of the parliament. It is more likely, as...
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Landsvirkjun Wants Icelanders to Settle Upon 14 New Power Plants
Landsvirkjun, Iceland’s national energy company, plans to build fourteen power plants in the next 15 years; ten hydro dams and four geothermal plants, costing between 4,5 and 5 billion US dollars. If...
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Increased Sulphur Pollution in Reykjavík Due to Geothermal Expansion in...
The Public Health Authority of Reykjavík is highly critical of the recently published preliminary Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for a 45 MW construction of geothermal power plants at...
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Lake Langisjór Finally Declared Protected
After many years of planning to change lake Langisjór, located at the western edge of Vatnajökull, into a reservoir for energy production, Landsvirkjun’s fantasies have finally been permanently...
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Iceland’s Energy Master Plan Allows for Three More Kárahnjúkar Dams –...
The equivalent of three Kárahnjúkar dams will be built in Iceland in the near future if the parliament will pass a proposition for a parliamentary resolution on Iceland’s Energy Master Plan, which the...
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Time has Told: The Kárahnjúkar Dams Disastrous Economical and Environmental...
The profitability of Landsvirkjun, Iceland’s national energy company, is way too low. And worst off is the Kárahnjúkar hydro power plant, Europe’s largest dam, the company’s biggest and most expensive...
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“International Activists Criminalized”
Article by Jón Bjarki Magnússon, originally published on April 4th, in Icelandic newspaper DV. Translated from Icelandic by Saving Iceland. German MP Andrej Hunko states that European police...
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Accused of Betrayal Because of His Opinions
On May 18, Icelandic newspaper DV published an interview with Janne Sigurðsson, director of Alcoa Fjarðaál since the beginning of this year. In the interview, Janne describes, amongst other things,...
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Kárahnjúkar Dam Blown Up in New Film by Angeli Novi
Saving Iceland would like to draw its readers attention to a currently ongoing exhibition by art collective Angeli Novi, comprised of artists Steinunn Gunnlaugsdóttir and Ólafur Páll Sigurðsson who...
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Angeli Novi’s Time Bomb Ticking in the Continuum of History
By Snorri Páll Jónsson Úlfhildarson, originally published in the Reykjavík Grapevine. There is a photograph by Richard Peter of a statue of an angel overlooking the card-house-like ruins of Dresden....
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The Biological Death of River Lagarfljót — Yet Another Revelation of the...
In his much celebrated play, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Italian absurdist Dario Fo brings forth a tragicomic picture of the scandal and its most typical aftermaths in democratic societies, thus...
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Preserving the Laxá Explosion — Blowing up Dams and Democracy Restrictions
Article by Snorri Páll Jónsson Úlfhildarson, originally published in The Reykjavík Grapevine. Photos: Stills from the film. It’s dark and silent — nothing unusual around midnight by river Laxá and...
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In the Land of the Wild Boys
Andri Snær Magnason First published in Grapevine. Based on a 2010 article entitled “Í landi hinna klikkuðu karlmanna.” (“In the Land of the Mad Men”). Translated in part by Haukur S. Magnússon. After...
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The Mark Kennedy Saga – Chapter Iceland
Snorri Páll Jónsson Úlfhildarson Grapevine Each time a free-floating rumour gets confirmed, and past political behaviour becomes a scandalous spectacle, one cannot resist wondering if such conduct...
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Björk, Patti Smith, Lykke Li and More to Play Concert for Icelandic Conservation
Event takes place on March 18 in Reykjavik at Harpa. Bjork will play a concert in protest at the Icelandic government’s proposed changes to conservation laws. The Icelandic singer tops the bill at the...
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Majority Pushes For Eight New Hydro Power Plant Options
Proposal and lack of due process called “unlawful” and “declaration of war” Haukur Már Helgason Last week’s Thursday, the majority of Alþingi’s Industrial Affairs Committee (AIAC) announced its...
View Article‘A nice place to work in’? Experiences of Icelandic Aluminium Smelter Employees
A special report for Saving Iceland by Miriam Rose In 1969 the first of three aluminium smelters was built in Iceland at Straumsvík, near Hafnafjörður, on the South West side of Reykjavík by Alusuisse...
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Iceland’s Troubled Environment
Michael Chapman When it comes to loving where you’re from, Iceland has a fantastic international reputation for its widespread use of renewable energy, its untouched landscapes and its sustainable...
View ArticleThe Hidden Price of Iceland’s Green Energy
[See image gallery at www.savingiceland.org] Henner Busch In times of runaway climate change, phasing out fossil fuels and increasing the share of renewables is imperative. But this transition is not...
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