Boreholes in Eldvörp are a Bore, Argues Nature Conservationist
An online petition has been launched by nature guide and biologist Jóhann Garðar Þorbjörnsson to protest the drilling of boreholes in an untouched reg...
Icelandic state buys land and energy rights in municipal tax debt swap deal
The Icelandic Minister of Finance says that it is not wasteful for the state to pay ISK 300 million of taxpayers’ money to buy two plots of land...
Icelandic pension funds buy 25 percent of HS Orka
14 Icelandic pension funds have struck a deal to buy 25 percent of energy company HS Orka. The chairman of Jardvarmi — a company specially set u...
Iceland PM jumps onboard with Bjork energy petition
As part of her campaign to enshrine Iceland’s energy resources as the property of the nation, the singer Bjork Gudmundsdottir set up a petition ...
Eva Joly on banking charges and on electricity with Bjork
Eva Joly, the departing assistant to Iceland’s bank crash investigator has used her last day on the job, before returning to France to campaign ...
Icelandic pension fund interested in Magma Energy’s HS Orka offer
Three weeks ago the joint enterprise fund of the Icelandic pension funds declined Magma Energy’s offer to purchase a 25 percent stake in HS Orka...
Icelandic town to sue government if it stops Magma Energy deal?
The chairman of the Reykjanesbaer town council says he does not see how Magma Energy can pull out of the HS Orka purchase at this stage and added the ...
Magma Energy’s Icelandic dream dealt government setback
The Icelandic Prime Minister is to set up a committee of independent experts to investigate the privatisation of Icelandic energy companies – es...