Saving Iceland
18. júlí, 2007.

Sama fréttatilkynning á ensku http://www.savingiceland.org/node/841

Umhverfi / Mótmæli

SAVING ICELAND LOKA VEGINUM AÐ VERKSMIÐJUM CENTURY/NORÐURÁLS OG ELKEM/ÍSLENSKA JÁRNBLENDIFÉLAGSINS

GRUNDARTANGA – Í dag hafa samtökin Saving Iceland lokað eina aðfangaveginum frá þjóðvegi 1. að verksmiðjum Century / Norðuráls og ELKEM / Íslenska járnblendifélagsins. Saving Iceland samtökin eru andsnúin áformum um nýja álbræðslu Century í Helguvík og stækkun á verksmiðju Járnblendifélags Íslands. Aðgerðafólk hafa hlekkjað sig saman í málmrörum og myndað þannig mannlegan tálma á veginum um leið og nokkrir hafa tekið yfir byggingakrana á svæðinu.

September 11th, 2007

News from the blog of Satan. The repetition of Alcoa's constant claims at being environmentally friendly only empower our hatred of them. We know that if they didn't have so much guilt to hide they wouldn't need to regurgitate their practically messianic image in every single text they vomit. Would you believe a man stalking you at night when he keeps shouting "I'M NOT GOING TO HURT YOU!" or would you take that as further reason to get the hell away or beat him up until the monster's out for the count?

Alcoa's greed makes the world bleed.

31 July 2007

Twenty three year old British Saving Iceland activist Miriam R. has been arrested by the Icelandic police. She was protesting against the Icelandic government's support for heavy industry, in particular Rio Tinto Alcan's Straumsvik smelter in South-West Iceland. Reports suggest she is still being held by the police. (1)

Dr. Derek Wall, Green Party Principal Speaker, said: "Although Rio Tinto have been making the headlines for their recent purchase of the Canadian aluminium group Alcan for 38.1bn dollars (18.7bn pounds), it is the environmental degradation and damage that goes hand in hand with most of their projects that should be drawing the spotlight.

7 August 2007

Today lovers of nature almost danced on the graves of ALCOA, ALCAN, Century and Elkem when a mysterious power "thump" in the national grid managed to knock out power to all their factories!

At around 3pm today a power surge which originated from around the Hvalfjordur region (where Century and Elkem run their aluminium-cancer and alloys factories), created such a surge that all power to the west, north and east of Iceland was brought down, even Reykjavik's for a split second. Energy was not restored to the heavy industry factories for a number of hours. Unfortunately, whilst we were counting the minutes these factories were offline, we are told that the pots of molten aluminium did not cool down enough to destroy them entirely.

22 July 2007

The Icelandic media reports today that Icelandic Alloys (Elkem) "accidentally" released a huge cloud of pollution from their plant at Grundartangi in Hvalfjordur. Apparently the "accident" was due to "human error". The media quote Thordur Magnusson, an Elkem spokesman, saying that this human error "...recurs several times a week."

Sigurbjorn Hjaltason, Chairman of the local Kjosarhreppur parish, confirms that Elkem usually produce the emissions during nights, when suitable, throughout the year. This is so that people will be less likely to become aware of the pollution they have to breath.