Saving Iceland in Aberystwyth, May 7th

8pm, The Tree­house, Bak­er St — Talk & Film
A num­ber of heavy indus­try cor­po­ra­tions includ­ing RioT­in­to and ALCOA are invad­ing vast areas of unin­hab­it­ed wilder­ness in Ice­land for new smelters, refiner­ies and pow­er plants. Come and vis­it some of the most stun­ning places of beau­ty on earth, and help pro­tect them with direct action.
Despite of its green image, Ice­land is plan­ning a large num­ber of heavy indus­try projects, includ­ing a num­ber of alu­mini­um smelters and an oil refin­ery. If they con­tin­ue, every glacial riv­er in the coun­try will be dammed, vast areas will be destroyed by flood­ing and large scale geot­her­mal drilling. The sub­arc­tic tun­dra har­bours some of the most valu­able wet­lands and bird breed­ing areas in Europe, unique ecosys­tems with geo­log­i­cal phe­nom­e­na and land­scapes that can not be seen any­where in the world.

8pm, The Tree­house, Bak­er St — Talk & Film
A num­ber of heavy indus­try cor­po­ra­tions includ­ing RioT­in­to and ALCOA are invad­ing vast areas of unin­hab­it­ed wilder­ness in Ice­land for new smelters, refiner­ies and pow­er plants. Come and vis­it some of the most stun­ning places of beau­ty on earth, and help pro­tect them with direct action.
Despite of its green image, Ice­land is plan­ning a large num­ber of heavy indus­try projects, includ­ing a num­ber of alu­mini­um smelters and an oil refin­ery. If they con­tin­ue, every glacial riv­er in the coun­try will be dammed, vast areas will be destroyed by flood­ing and large scale geot­her­mal drilling. The sub­arc­tic tun­dra har­bours some of the most valu­able wet­lands and bird breed­ing areas in Europe, unique ecosys­tems with geo­log­i­cal phe­nom­e­na and land­scapes that can not be seen any­where in the world.

Alu­mini­um smelt­ing, even when pow­ered by geot­her­mal ener­gy, emits so much green­house gas emis­sions that Ice­land now pro­duces 18 tons of CO2 equiv­a­lent per capi­ta, com­pared to the Euro­pean aver­age of 11. If all the plans con­tin­ues, emis­sions will increase by at least 63% over 1990 lev­els.

May 7th, Sav­ing Ice­land will give a pre­sen­ta­tion of these issues in the Tree­house in Aberys­t­wyth, and we will tell you about the inter­na­tion­al direct action cam­paign that has tak­en place, and the plans for this sum­mer’s camp start­ing in July, includ­ing prac­ti­cal­i­ties. We will have a num­ber of vehi­cles going from the UK (incl. Wales) and Europe to the camp. We will also show some videos of recent actions and a slideshow of some of the threat­ened areas.

More info: http://www.savingiceland.org.