Power utility firm #Landsvirkjun plans to undertake some of the largest investments the company has ever carried out in the coming years.
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The úrskurðarnefnd umhverfis- og auðlindamála (#Environmental and Natural #Resources Appeals Committee) has annulled the #permit granted to #Landsvirkjun to expand the #Sigölduvirkjun power plant.
#Landsvirkjun granted provisional construction #permit for #Hvammsvirkjun: the permit covers preparatory works that had already begun. They are neither in nor near a #watercourse and therefore have no impact on a "water body".
#Landsvirkjun granted provisional construction #permit for #Hvammsvirkjun: the permit covers preparatory works that had already begun. They are neither in nor near a #watercourse and therefore have no impact on a "water body".
The managing director of #Landvernd says that #Landsvirkjun is setting a dangerous precedent by pushing the #Hvammsvirkjun power plant forward without permits and in defiance of a Supreme #Court ruling.
„Þar stendur að ef það á að spilla fljóti, stöðuvatni eða öðru vatnshloti, þá þurfi að vera alveg ljóst að almannaheill vegi þyngra en þau spjöll sem áformuð eru,“ segir Mörður.
„Og þá spyr maður: Hvar er aftur greinargerðin frá #Landsvirkjun um að #almannaheill réttlæti skaðann af #Hvammsvirkjun?“