Following a story published by IceNews and other Icelandic news channels regarding industrial salt being used in commercial food production, a number of international media channels have misinterpreted and distributed false information.
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Icelanders do not eat road salt
Posted on 18 January 2012.
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For 13 years Icelanders have been eating industrial salt
Posted on 16 January 2012.
It came to light over the weekend that for at least 13 years the Icelandic brewing and food supplies company Ölgerðin Egill Skallagrímsson has been selling industrial salt to food production companies to put in their products.
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Tens-of-millions lost because of power cut
Posted on 11 January 2012.
Because of yesterday’s bad-weather-induced power cuts in Iceland production at both the Elkem ferrosilicon plant and the Norðurál aluminium smelter at Hvalfjörður in the west ground to a halt. It is thought the cuts cost the companies tens-of-millions of krónur.
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First food powered fishing ship makes successful trial in Iceland
Posted on 16 December 2011.
Björgólfur EA 312, an Icelandic freezing trawler, returned to its home port of Dalvík this week after a trip propelled by Icelandic-made fuel, called Lífsdísill (life diesel) – made from fats and oils wasted in food production.
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New German silicon factory for north Iceland?
Posted on 09 September 2011.
A declaration of co-operation will be signed tomorrow for the construction of a 66,000 tonne/year silicon factory planned for Bakki near the north-eastern Icelandic town of Husavik by the German company PCC.
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Icelandic farmer believes aluminium smelter killed his sheep
Posted on 12 August 2011.
“She couldn’t feed herself any more and died in the end [clogged with] mucous,” says Sigurbjorn Hjaltason, farmer and former Kjosahreppur council leader.
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Iceland has doubled energy production
Posted on 09 August 2011.
Iceland is producing twice the amount of electricity today as it was at the time of the millennium celebreations, just eleven years ago. The country could well go on to double present-day energy generation as well.
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Norwegian CO2 levels spike
Posted on 06 June 2011.
Recent data has shown that Norway’s CO2 emissions increased by nearly five percent in 2010.
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