Iceland bans halibut fishing outright amid stock level fears
All fishing for halibut around Iceland will be banned from 1st January amid ongoing stock decline.
Greenpeace ambush oil execs into phony meeting
Greenpeace has got one over on the top dogs of the oil industry after duping them into listening to a lecture about the perils of exploration in Green...
Icelandic fishermen “throwing very little by-catch away”
There has been a significant reduction in the quantity of Icelandic-caught fish being thrown back into the sea when fish of the wrong size are acciden...
Cairn comes up empty-handed again
Cairn Energy has yet again failed to find oil or gas at its wells in Greenland. The Scottish exploration company’s shares fell one percent on the anno...
Chinese investor’s Iceland resort construction bid rejected by minister
Ögmundur Jónasson, Iceland’s Minister of the Interior, has rejected Chinese billionaire Huang Nubo’s application to buy 30,639 hectares in...
Icelandic tree producers in Christmas race
Tree-folk in Iceland are racing against time, and each other, to get Christmas trees chopped down and into the shops.
Cairn finally scores in Greenland
British drilling firm Cairn Energy has seen its share prices increase after finally finding evidence of oil in one of its controversial Greenland well...
World’s first green methanol production could end up in most Icelandic cars
Roughly a year after construction began on Iceland’s new methanol fuel factory, it has now opened and is at full production capacity. Its enviro...