New Year London Stunt Action by Saving Iceland

On new years day 2007 a group of activists climbed ST PAULS cathe­dral and the Tate Mod­ern simul­tan­ious­ly to hang ban­ners, as well as on the mil­le­ni­um bridge to kick start a year of decent against heavy indus­try in Ice­land and Trinidad.


PRESS RELEASE
1 Jan­u­ary 2007

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTESTORS ARE TO HOST A STUNT ACTION IN LONDON

On new years day, cam­paign­ers from the group SavingIceland.org climbed St.Pauls Cathe­dral and the Tate Mod­ern as part of the SavingIceland.org cam­paign, a group ded­i­cat­ing to chal­leng­ing the destruc­tion of Europe’s last remain­ing great wilder­ness­es, in Ice­land. This is to be a protest against the destruc­tion of rur­al com­mu­ni­ties in Trinidad and the Ice­landic wilder­ness­es, the last of their kind in Europe, both at the hands of the alu­mini­um indus­try.

The Ice­landic gov­ern­ment is sac­ri­fic­ing its glacial rivers and geot­her­mal resources in order to pow­er alu­mini­um smelt­ing facil­i­ties. It is to destroy some of Iceland’s great­est nat­ur­al trea­sures and pol­lute its waters. This will cause con­sid­er­able dam­age to its tourism and fish­ing indus­tries. The Trinida­di­an gov­ern­ment is sell­ing its vast reserves of nat­ur­al gas to cre­ate an off-shore alu­mini­um smelter that many fear will under­mine the liveli­hoods of entire com­mu­ni­ties who are depen­dant upon fish­ing.

Tomorrow’s action is part of an ongo­ing inter­na­tion­al cam­paign in sup­port of local resis­tance against heavy indus­try in both Ice­land and Trinidad.

SavingIceland.org has been involved in the organ­i­sa­tion of two protest camps held in Ice­land and numer­ous sol­i­dar­i­ty actions staged across the globe. It is cur­rent­ly coor­di­nat­ing its third protest camp on the island, com­menc­ing on 6th July 2007.

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