See also: IRN Aluminium toolkit - Foiling the Aluminum Industry: A Toolkit for Communities, Activists, Consumers, and Workers

Frumvinnsla áls - Lýsing á hinni mengandi og orkufreku framleiðslu álbarra. Þýtt úr “Foiling the Aluminum Industry”

This important and lengthy report from the Washington based Sustainable Energy and Economy Network is highly informative about the operational structure of the aluminum industry and the resulting impacts on human rights and the environment. Because it has been unavailable on the Net for a while we publish it here in its entirety.

An IPS/SEEN/TNI report, 2001

cartoon by Khalil Bendib

by Sujatha Fernandes,CorpWatch September 6th, 2006

The roads that wander through the southwestern peninsula of Trinidad pass small fishing villages, mangrove swamps, and coconut plantations; they skirt herds of buffalypso and reveal sheltered beach coves. This February, Alcoa signed an agreement in principle with the Trinidad and Tobago Government that threatens to fundamentally alter this gentle landscape. Plans by the Pittsburgh-based manufacturing company to build a large aluminum smelter have sparked criticism from local residents and environmentalists.

Saving Iceland
Reykjavík
17 August 2005

We who have been protesting against heavy industry and the devastating destruction of Iceland's natural environment at Kárahnjúkar in the Eastern highlands of Iceland and in other parts of the country in recent months would like to take the opportunity to make the following statement:

During our protests we have used methods which may not have a long tradition in Iceland but which do not constitute a breach of the law. We are a broad-based group of Icelanders and people of many other nationalities united by our respect for the natural environment and our intolerance of repression, the misuse of power and the violation of human rights.

CorporateNews.org.uk
April 4th, 2005

Barclays Bank
Already fund the notorious Narmada dam project in India – and have played a 'key role' in financing the dam by arranging a $400 million loan to Landsvirkjun, the Icelandic power company that will run the dam.

Impregilo

Dodgy Italian construction conglomerate, in charge of building most of the dam . One of Impregilo's consultants has already been found guilty in 2003 of offering bribes to a Lesotho hydro-electric firm, and the company itself will face another hearing before the Lesotho courts in April 2005. Impregilo were also involved in building the Argentina's Yacyreta dam, which went almost $10 million over budget and was labeled byPresident Carlos Menem 'a monument to corruption' . Impregilo were also one of the firms planning to build the infamous Ilisu dam.

Iceland Review
06/10/2005 | 10:40

Supreme Court invalidates environmental assessment of Alcoa smelter.

Ég undirritaður, Guðmundur M. H. Beck (kt. 060450-2939) Kollaleiru Reyðarfirði, geri eftirfarandi athugasemdir við Tillögu að matsáætlun vegna álvers Alcoa-Fjarðaráls í Reyðarfirði.

Answers to common questions about the skyr action at Hotel Nordica 14 June, 2005.