Foreign Workers Needed in Iceland
According to a forecast from the Analysis Department of Arion Bank in Iceland, there will be a demand for foreign workers to fill around 5,000 jobs ov...
Icelanders do not eat road salt
Following a story published by IceNews and other Icelandic news channels regarding industrial salt being used in commercial food production, a number ...
For 13 years Icelanders have been eating industrial salt
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 se...
Tens-of-millions lost because of power cut
Because of yesterday’s bad-weather-induced power cuts in Iceland production at both the Elkem ferrosilicon plant and the Norðurál aluminium smel...
First food powered fishing ship makes successful trial in Iceland
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 ...
New German silicon factory for north Iceland?
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-eas...
Icelandic farmer believes aluminium smelter killed his sheep
“She couldn’t feed herself any more and died in the end [clogged with] mucous,” says Sigurbjorn Hjaltason, farmer and former Kjosahr...
Iceland has doubled energy production
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 c...