Iceland’s Geothermal Energy to be Privatized? – Canadian Company Wants to...
Magma Energy, a Canadian company, wants to buy a majority share in H.S. Orka, a geothermal energy company based on the Reykjanes peninsula. In July this year Magma Energy bought a 11% share in H.S....
View ArticleDevelopment of Iceland’s Geothermal Energy Potential for Aluminium Production...
By Jaap Krater and Miriam Rose In: Abrahamsky, K. (ed.) (2010) Sparking a World-wide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World. AK Press, Edinburgh. p. 319-333...
View ArticleGovernment and Interested Parties Wage a War Against Iceland’s Wilderness
Last Saturday, November 21st, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Iceland’s prime minister and the head of Samfylkingin (social democratic populist party), said that she is completely sure that all hindrances that...
View ArticleNo Joint Assessment Needed in Reykjanes
In September 2009, the Ministry of Environment overruled the Planning Agency’s verdic which stated that no joint Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is needed for the S-West Power Grid and the...
View ArticleSaving Iceland Mobilisation Call-Out
Join our resistance against the industrialization of Europe’s last remaining great wilderness and take direct action against heavy industry! The Struggle So Far The campaign to defend Europe’s...
View ArticleCentury Aluminum Energy Questions
Century Aluminum (Nordural) intends to build an aluminium smelter at Helguvík for producing 250.000 tpy, using 435 MW of electricity. At one point the intended size grew to 600.000 tpy and 625 MW of...
View ArticleThe Þjórsá Farce Continues – Are the Dams Planned for Aluminium Production?
A decision by Svandís Svavarsdóttir, Minister of Environment, to reject the construction of a dam in Urriðafoss waterfall in Þjórsá river, has been ruled illegal by Iceland’s supreme court. Whilst...
View ArticleNational Energy Authority Fears Overexploitation of Geothermal Areas in...
H.S. Orka, an Icelandic energy company recently bought by Canadian firm Magma Energy, has to widen its planned drilling area for the planned enlargement of Reykjanes geothermal power plant and proof...
View ArticleThe Government Stands or Falls with the Þjórsá River Conflict
Iceland’s government’s majority in parliament stands and falls with one particular parliament member from the Left Green party (VG), Guðfríður Lilja Grétarsdóttir, who is strongly opposed to the...
View ArticleIncreased 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...
View ArticleThe Icelandic Geothermal Cluster: Banks, Universities, Ministries, Energy...
Dozens of Icelandic companies and institutions, all directly connected to the heavy industrialization of Iceland, have established a co-operating forum concerning the development of the so-called...
View ArticleIceland’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...
View ArticleFrom Siberia to Iceland: Century Aluminum, Glencore and the Incestuous World...
A special report for Saving Iceland by Dónal O’Driscoll Preface Glencore are the majority shareholder of Century, the owner of one operational and one half-built smelter in Iceland, it’s key...
View ArticleAluminium Smelter in Helguvík: Mere Myth of the Past?
Plans to operate a 250-360 thousand ton aluminium smelter in Helguvík, which has in fact been under construction since 2008, seem ever more likely to be nothing but an inoperable myth of the past,...
View ArticleTime 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...
View ArticlePlans to Dam Lower Þjórsá River Put on Hold
Three planned dams in lower Þjórsá river will not be included in a parliamentary resolution for Iceland’s Energy Master Plan, according to sources from within both governing political parties. While...
View ArticleThe Reykjanes Peninsula: The Trash Can of Iceland’s Energy Master Plan
As environmentalists and their opponents alike wait for the last steps of Iceland’s Energy Master Plan to occur, it seems quite clear that while river Þjórsá might have been temporarily saved from...
View ArticleThe Geothermal Ecocide of Reykjanes Peninsula
After thirteen years of environmental, economic and technical evaluations, followed by a proposition for a parliamentary solution and a three month long public comments process, wherein 225 reviews...
View ArticleIn 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...
View Article‘A nice place to work in’? Experiences of Icelandic Aluminium Smelter Employees
[See image gallery at www.savingiceland.org] 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...
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