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Potatoes to Heavy Industry - Xmas blockade in Iceland with video

Saving Iceland Collective | 25.12.2007 22:04 | Ecology | World

Xmas greetings and action from Saving Iceland, fighting Iceland's heavy industrialisation.



The Jule Lads, Nordic trolls whos tradition preceed Father Christmas, descended upon a geothermal power station which is being enlarged to power the enlargement of an aluminium smelting factory by RUSAL/Nordural. Hengill was once a beautiful mountain range, at the edge of a highly volcanic area in Iceland, a ski resort peppered with natural hot pools and steaming rocks. Now it is nothing but a screaming factory.

The Jule lads join up for a special direct action with the Saving Iceland collective as they left to town... the video can be found here:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfY5Ou31SWE

Please consider comming out to Iceland for our 2008 action camp, we need all the help from activists we can get. This island is Europe's last wilderness and with huge dams, geothermal power plants, power lines, tarmac roads, polluting factories, not to mention all the terrible affects on the surrounding sea, and a whole host of other forms of destruction.

Christmas greetings from Iceland

Saving Iceland Collective
- Homepage: http://www.savingiceland.org/