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By: #Iceland-Kárahnjúkar Dam Blown Up in New Film by Angeli Novi #Sundayreading « kracktivist

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 06:41:35 +0000

[…] Corporate green-wash and the Kárahnjukar dams play a key role inYou Can’t Stand in the Way of Progress. In one of the film’s scenes, the 700 m long and 200 m high central Kárahnjúkar Dam is digitally blown up by the very same explosion that blew up the Dimmugljúfur canyon in March 2003. The first destruction of the 200m deep canyon, which was carved out by the 150 km long river Jökulsá á Dal, played a strategical key role in the conflict about the power plant’s construction, and was meant to signify the government’s determined intention to steamroller Iceland’s eastern highlands in order to produce electricity for the US aluminium corporation ALCOA. As environmentalists warned from the beginning, the construction has turned out to have devastating environmental, social and economical impacts, and contributed also heavily to Iceland’s infamous 2008 economic collapse. […]

By: Saving Iceland » Landsvirkjun Wants Icelanders to Settle Upon 14 New Power Plants

Wed, 11 May 2011 19:13:13 +0000

[…] warned against large-scale energy projects as a counterweight to the current economic crisis, e.g. in an article in Icelandic Morgunblaðið in October 2008 where Jaap Krater, ecological economist and one of Saving Iceland’s […]

By: Saving Iceland » Alcoa in Greenland: Empty Promises?

Saving Iceland » Alcoa in Greenland: Empty Promises? — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 01:21:02 +0000

[…] [15] Jaap Krater, 26/10/2010. More power plants may cause more economic instability. Morgunbladid Newspaper. http://www.savingiceland.org/2008/10/mor… […]