Karahnjukar dam and power plant, Icelandic Highlands

The largest environmental movement on Iceland during the 1990s was about finding alternatives against a plan by the government to build a huge hydropower complex in Eastern Iceland, damning two out of three major glacial rivers running north from the Vatnajoekull Glacier, destroying waterfalls, drowning valuable highland areas and wilderness. This resulted that only one…

  • Produced by:
    Peter Prokosch
  • Year:
    01/09/2014

Karahnjukar dam and power plant, Icelandic Highlands

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