Three members of the environmental pressure group Saving Iceland shackled themselves along the entrance road to the Helguvik aluminium smelter construction site this morning before 07.00. The protesters managed to stop vehicular access to the site, but were unable to block pedestrians.
A fourth protester demobilised a crane on the site in the same manner. Police arrived on the scene to talk with the protesters and clipped their chains roughly an hour after they started disrupting work. Nobody was arrested and the group has since left the site.
According to Audunn Kristbjorns- og Danfridarson, a Saving Iceland spokesman, 18 group members met at the Helguvik smelter site at 06.00 this morning to protest Iceland’s continued development of its aluminium smelting industry.
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Pure souls, why do you waste your time. The left-green MP i.e. guardians of the nature in Iceland (to be read the money capital) don’t care about their own country and nature. But you protest …
Balkanson.
Have you heard about a good clinic running brain transplant surgery? Cause some people really need them ;-)
PS. I really hate these arrogant “green fighters”.
Why dont they go and plant some trees instead.
If some pro development people go and chain themself to Greenpeace ship you think they will get away with better treatment? The Green ” Activist “, AKA thugs would treat them a lot less better than they are treated them selves.
Police in this country have been more restrained with these thug than they deserve, that much is obivous. That is because police here are fair and treat people with equal respect right until moment they get out of hand.
And its true, Left-Greens have shown them selve to be unprincipaled in office. Just the Left part seems to be left of the party, not the Green part.
Not that I approve of Left-Greenness but still you would have thought they would not have betray they supporters.
They do rely on vote after all to exist.
It’s boring, dirty job. And never mentioned in the NEWS. Real “fighters” never bothers by such stuff. Publicity is everything.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I suggest members of the environmental pressure group ‘Saving Iceland’ should shackle themselves to the whalers harpoons, if they really care and want to save Iceland.
Vic Machin. U.K.
Pro-development = no planet?
Contradictory, really.