The Dreamland – A Documentary by Andri Snær Magnason
From Draumalandið website – Dreamland is a truly epic film about a nation standing at cross-roads. Leading up to the country’s greatest economic crisis, the government started the largest mega project...
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Iceland Attacked by Economic Hitmen
John Perkins, the author of The Confessions of an Economic Hitman, is currently in Iceland. Perkins is here to be at the premier screening of The Dreamland, a documentary based on Andri Snær...
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‘Green’ Deception Flops – A Statement from Saving Iceland Regarding Skyr...
Olafur Pall Sigurdsson Saving Iceland applauds the symbolic hits that the three pro-heavy industry political parties were dealt in the form of liberal splashes of green skyr (traditional Icelandic...
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Is Heavy Industry the Way Out of the Economic Crisis?
By Indriði H. Þorláksson – Economist The economic effects of heavy industry must take into account both short and long term economic policies. Statements put forth without reasoning sometimes obtain...
View ArticleGreenland’s Energy and Mineral Extraction Master-plan Revealed
As Greenland awakes from over 700 years of colonisation and heavy subsidisation by Denmark, it’s home rule government are promoting the development of huge hydro-power for aluminium smelters, and all...
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Landsvirkjun´s Spin on their Energy Prices to Heavy Industry
The deals on energy prices between Landsvirkjun (Iceland´s National Energy company) and the aluminum companies working in Iceland have been kept secret from the public since they got signed. The only...
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Greenland’s Decision: Nature or Culture?
Miriam Rose Climate change has made Greenland the next industrial frontier, but at what cost? Humanity is in denial. We know that our hyperactive extraction of fuels, metals and minerals, and their...
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Unusually High Rate of Work Related Accidents in Kárahnjúkar
Since 2002, when work began on constructing the Kárahnjúkar dam, which today provides electricity to Alcoa’s aluminum smelter in Reyðarfjörður, until end of the year 2009, 1700 work related injuries...
View ArticleBending All the Rules, Just for Alcoa
Following is a short clip from the documentary ‘Dreamland’, made by Andri Snær Magnason and Þorfinnur Guðnason in 2009. Here you can see Friðrik Sóphusson, then head of Landsvirkjun (Icelandic Power...
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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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