Mt. Snæfell and Eyjabakkar – Under severe threat by Alcoa and Landsvirkjun
IN ENGLISH OR OTHER LANGUAGES
Icelandic or related websites in English:
Environmental…
Groen Front – IJsland
Photos from the land that is being destroyed by the dams at Kárahnjúkar
More photos from Kárahnjúkar
Iceland Under Attack – Maps in English showing the “Intended Master Plan” for the destruction of Iceland / Very useful, but dated in that in a desperate attempt to rescue the glacial rivers it offers the geothermal fields as an alternative source of energy for heavy industry. At the time that the maps were being prepared (in 2004) many Icelandic environmentalists pointed out the folly of such a naive “strategy”. Now that heavy industry has turned its greedy eye on the geothermal areas this sceptisism has been proved right. SI have always been opposed to any use of geothermal energy for heavy industry.
Nature Watch (Natturuvaktin) – Icelandic anti-dams group / Their website is full of information but mainly in Icelandic
Icelandic Society for the Protection of Birds
INCA – Iceland Nature Conservation Association
Icelandic Environment Association
Genetic Modification in Iceland
“The Ark” – Ómar Þ. Ragnarsson – Hugmyndaflug.is – Day by day monitoring of the destruction of the Kárahnjúkar area – Photo galleries
Bebbe Grillo
Il Progetto Karahnjukar – Paolo Cortini
Friends of Iceland – Co-organisers with Saving Iceland of the international protest camp 2006 (forthcoming in English) Petition against the heavy industry policy
Are Electromagnetic Fields dangerous to your health? – This website’s theme is EMF (Electromagnetic Fields) and possible health hazards for people in connection with these forces. Has interesting links in English.
Beluga.is – Environmental conservation and certification – Striving to save the beluga whale.
Stop the Dams!!
Augnablik – Hiking tours through the wilderness now being destroyed by the Karahnjukar dams for ALCOA. Lots of photos.
Other
Anarchism in Iceland – Infoshop.org
Reykjavik Grapevine – A Reykjavík listings paper with news in English and a new editor.
Iceland Review – News in English
Sigur Ros
International websites:
Campaigners against ALCOA
Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens – Brasil or Movement of Dam Affected People – Brasil
NO SMELTER TnT – Campaign against ALCOA in Trinidad and Tobago
Rights Action Group Trinidad and Tobago
Smelta Karavan
Alcoa Sweatshops in Honduras – Alcoa Pits Auto Parts Workers in Mexico Against Its Employees in Honduras. July 2005
CNN / Lou Dobbs Tonight, July 22, 2005 –
Bill Tucker reports on U.S. companies moving auto parts production from the U.S. to Mexico and then to even cheaper labor in Honduars
Mexico – Comité Fronterizo de Obrer@s (CFOï’Border Committee of Women Workers) – Protecting the Rights of Maquiladora Workers
ALCOAï’s High-tech Sweatshop in Mexico – National Labor Committee for Worker and Human Rights (Here you can download the highly illuminating pdf ‘THE STRUGGLE TO CLIMB OUT OF MISERY’)
Western Austalian Forest Alliance – Alcoa Clearing Jarrah Forest for bauxite mining
Community Alliance for Positive Solutions Inc.
Alcoa+resistance+dams search!
Campaigners against RIO TINTO-ALCAN
www.kashipur.info
Alcan’t – The struggle against ALCAN in India
ALCAN CSR Profile 2005 pdf – Can ALCAN claim to be the Best? It’s Corporate and Social Responsibility in Question
Don’t Sell Us Out Coalition
Campaigns against the mining of bauxite (aluminium ore)
Jamaica Bauxite Environmental Organization – Excellent video section showing the horrors of the mining of bauxite…
Mines and Communities
Resistance against dams
Friends of the river Narmada
Ilisu Dam Campaign
Solidarios con Itoiz
Itoiz – The case against the Itoiz dam in the Irati valley
International Rivers Network – Linking Human Rights and Environmental Protection
IRN – Foiling the Aluminum Industry: A Toolkit for Communities, Activists, Consumers and Workers
European Rivers Network
Save the River Ribble, UK, from being dammed to make a luxury watersports park
The Corner House
Various other networks, NGOs, campaigns and independent media
BANKSY
Bilston Glen anti-bypass protest site
BirdLife International
The Camp For Climate Action
Dissent! A network of resistance – Against the G8
Earth First – Direct action for planet and people
Eco-Action – Ecological Direct Action
IndyMedia UK
Power Tools: for policy influence in natural resource management
Peace Not War
Rising Tide – Taking action on the root causes of climate change
Rossport Solidarity Camp, Ireland (camp website)
Shell to Sea, Ireland (Rossport campaign website)
SchNEWS
TITNORE WOODS PROTEST CAMP – Save the woods, stop the “development”!
Corporate watchdogs
Citizen Works – Tools For Democracy – Campaign for Corporate Reform
Corporate Critic – Research
Corporate Watch
Corporate Crime Reporter
The Center For Corporate Policy – A non-profit, non-partisan public interest organization working to curb corporate abuses and make corporations publicly accountable.
Corpwatch – Holding Corporations Accountable
Ethical Consumer
Multinationalmonitor.org
PRACTICAL INFO FOR FOREIGNERS
Smyril-line – Ferry from Shetland, Denmark and Norway to Seydisfjordur (two hrs. drive to Karahnjukar.) There is a much better deal on offer than they let on on their rather irritating website which includes the trip from Aberdeen to Lerwick, in the Shetland Islands (ï’140). Best bet is to give them a phonecall. UK: Aberdeen office 0845 6000 449 or Kathryn Fullerton – Booking – 01595 690845 or ++298 34 59 00
Iceland Express – Flights from Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Spain and the UK
British Airways have also started flying to Iceland.
Air Iceland – Flights between Reykjavik and Egilsstadir (1.1/2 hrs. drive to Karahnjukar
Iceland Worldwide
Icetourist
Embassy Information
Underestimating Mother Nature May Cost Your Life – Article in Grapevine about the dangers of traveling in the Icelandic highlands without the necessary precautions.
LonelyPlanet
IceBike – Click on ‘Practical info’ (Very useful general info for travellers)
Free online Icelandic teacher!
The National Land Survey of Iceland
Travel info from the Public Roads Administration
The Icelandic Meteorological office
One would think progress had been made since the first Norse settlers in Iceland deforested the entire island shortly after their arrival. Allowing the further degradation of that land for the sake of some multinational hardly qualifies as progress. Do Icelanders really need this? Given the number of Icelanders speaking out and acting against this desecration, it’s obvious that they do not. Let wisdom prevail over quarterly results for a change.
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we havent even begun fixing what we had destroyed and now we are destroying because we are too lazy to think.all for a quick buck.will this mess go on for several hundred years like the last time or longer even? already the lands is blowing away-this will certanly contribute.definetly not much thought being put into this.tourism is already going down due to whaling and this will definetly take away the clean air clean water image and future generations will pay the price-i actually thought we were smarter than this.
concerned icelander