London,
21. mars 2004
Don't
let the sun go down on Iceland
Náttúruvaktin
This
was the message demonstrators at Tate Modern wanted to get
across
today as Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson's hugely successful
'Weather
Project' exhibition - featuring a giant sun - came to an
end.
The
demonstrators staged an "umbrella protest" against
the ALCOA dam
currently under construction in the Icelandic highlands
which will see vast
swathes of Europe's last remaining wilderness flooded in
2006.
©
Marina Imperi
Interviewed
in the Guardian newspaper on the 27/12/03 Olafur Eliasson
himself stated that his "greatest fear is that US aluminium
giant ALCOA is
destroying the Icelandic highlands with the support of our
government."
The Icelandic government recently announced further plans
for similar
projects which, protesters say, will spoil much of Iceland's
world-famous
pristine nature.
"The
government want to turn Iceland into a heavy industry hell,"
said one
protester, Icelandic environmentalist Olafur Pall Sigurdsson.
"These mega
projects benefit nobody except the multinational companies
who instigate
and build them. "
"This
programme of building big dams in Iceland will drag us back
into the
20th century when the rest of 21st century Europe and the
US is busy
dismantling environmentally unfriendly big dams," Sigurdsson
went on.
Eco-tourism
is the fastest growing sector in the Icelandic economy.
To
impose a programme of environmentally destructive hydro-powered
heavy
industry seems, at the very least, short-sighted. For British
protester Dr
David Gems it is quite simply "environmental vandalism".
Dreifimiðar
sem rigndi niður af svölunum á mótmælunum
á Tate Modern og mótmælaáletrun
á regnhlífunum
Don´t
let the sun go down on Iceland´s beautiful nature
Dam
building in Iceland will drown Europe´s last great
wilderness
Stop
pristine Iceland being turned into heavy industry hell
Icelandic
government - pimps of nature
ALCOA:
Environmental criminals
Boycott
Barclays bank - They fund the drowning
Stop
war on nature
No
heavy industry hell
ALCOA!
Hands off Iceland
Stop
Kárahnjúkavirkjun
Icelandic
government: Nature vandals
ALCOA:
Dam vandals
Illvirkjun
ALCOA
out of Iceland
Iceland
- Power mad
Damn
your dams
Grein
um aðgerðirnar
28.
nóvember 2002: Miljøaktivister
i protest mod dansk byggefirma MetroXpressen
(in Danish)
"Modstanden med opførelsen af en af Europas
største dæmninger i Island med store naturødeleggelser
til følge er nået til Danmark."
