'Century Aluminum'
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Aug 28 2005
Actions, ALCOA, Century Aluminum, Kárahnjúkar, Landsvirkjun, Laws, Ólafur Páll Sigurdsson, Pollution, R & D Carbon, Repression, Rio Tinto Alcan, Saving Iceland
Did the Icelandic authorities think that their terrorizing of legitimate international protesters would stamp out all resistance against their criminal destruction of the last great European wilderness?! If so, they were wrong!
Saving Iceland are delighted to report that at noon on Friday 26. August three courageous Icelandic demonstrators climbed the roof of the head offices of the Icelandic Government and tore down the cloven flag of the Icelandic state, replacing it with a banner saying in Icelandic “NO DAMNED ALUMINIUM FACTORIES”. They then proceeded to have coffee and cakes on the roof. The demonstrators are not linked with the protests in the East and in Reykjavík this summer. Read More
Aug 18 2005
ALCOA, Century Aluminum, Economics, Energy Prices, Kárahnjúkar, Landsvirkjun, Reykjavik Energy, Rio Tinto Alcan
Iceland Review
08/18/2005
In its Tuesday daily bulletin, KB-bank says that the benefit that Iceland derives from aluminium smelters is small. The bank supports this view by claiming that the electricity is sold at close to cost and the rate of return for hydroelectric dams is low. It also says that the economical impact is overstated in the local discourse.
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Jun 20 2005
Actions, ALCOA, Bechtel, Century Aluminum, Climate Change, Corruption, Democracy deficit, Ecology, Greenwash, Impregilo, Kárahnjúkar, Landsvirkjun, Laws, Media bias, Ólafur Páll Sigurdsson, Pollution, R & D Carbon, Repression, Rio Tinto Alcan, Saving Iceland
Answers to common questions about the ‘skyr action’ at Hotel Nordica 14 June, 2005.
Why this conference?
* It was a conference for aluminium and the related industry leaders from all over the world.
* They were here because they think Iceland is right for heavy industrial development. Ironically, this is down to its clean environmental record.
* The people gathered there were key decision makers, financiers and policy drivers behind the Karahnjukar project and other heavy industry developments across Iceland which we oppose.
* A session entitled “An Approach to Sustainability for a Greenfield Aluminium Smelter” started at 11:45 on the day. Hosted by Joe Wahba of Bechtel Corporation and T.M. Sigurdsson of Alcoa, the outrageous hypocrisy of the seminar was extremely provocative to those who truly aspire to the ecological value of sustainability. Read More
Apr 17 2005
Actions, ALCOA, Bechtel, Century Aluminum, Corruption, Cultural, Democracy deficit, Ecology, Economics, Greenwash, Impregilo, Kárahnjúkar, Landsvirkjun, Laws, Media bias, Ólafur Páll Sigurdsson, Pollution, Repression, Saving Iceland, Workers Rights
The founder of Saving Iceland/NatureWatch, Olafur Pall Sigurðsson, interviewed here on Radio IndyMedia.org.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/04/309355.html
Apr 13 2005
ALCOA, Bechtel, Century Aluminum, Democracy deficit, Ecology, Greenwash, Impregilo, Kárahnjúkar, Landsvirkjun, Media bias, Ólafur Páll Sigurdsson, Pollution, Repression, Saving Iceland, WWF
CorporateWatch.org
Newsletter Issue 23 April/May 2005
In March 2004, the government of Iceland held a conference in the capital Reykjavik. It was a private conference, attended by representatives of the top multinational corporations, Rio Tinto, Alcoa and Alcan among them, and the population were not told about it in advance. Iceland, a government spokesman informed its people afterwards, was now open for business. Read More